Jim Elliot

I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

— Jim Elliot

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

— Jim Elliot

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

— Jim Elliot

Domesticated males aren't much use for adventure.

— Jim Elliot

It's hard to steer a parked car.

— Jim Elliot

Wherever you are - be all there.

— Jim Elliot

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?

— Jim Elliot

That saint who advances on his knees never retreats...

— Jim Elliot

So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.

— Jim Elliot

Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!

— Jim Elliot

When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.

— Jim Elliot

Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.

— Jim Elliot

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter.

— Jim Elliot

God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!

— Jim Elliot

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

— Jim Elliot

Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

— Jim Elliot

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God,…

— Jim Elliot

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single…

— Jim Elliot

I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of…

— Jim Elliot

No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared…

— Jim Elliot

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with… Oh…

— Jim Elliot

Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory,…

— Jim Elliot

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of…

— Jim Elliot

None of it gets to be 'old stuff', for it is Christ in print, the Living Word. We wouldn't think of rising…

— Jim Elliot

He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate…

— Jim Elliot

Desire is the putting of my will into God’s concern. It’s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your…

— Jim Elliot

Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak…

— Jim Elliot

I pray that the Lord might crown this year with His goodness and in the coming one give you a hallowed dare-devil…

— Jim Elliot

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's…

— Jim Elliot

Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it,…

— Jim Elliot

The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether ‘good and acceptable and perfect.’ The considerate love of the Lord Jesus for us…

— Jim Elliot

The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work.…

— Jim Elliot

“I walked out to the hill just now. It is exalting, delicious. To stand embraced by the shadows of a friendly tree…

— Jim Elliot

I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have…

— Jim Elliot

“May 2 Numbers 6 The Nazarite was holy in three negative ways: (1) he must not touch the grape; (2) he must…

— Jim Elliot

“Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of His.…

— Jim Elliot

Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let…

— Jim Elliot

In my own experience I have found that the most extravagant dreams of boyhood have not surpassed the great experience of being…

— Jim Elliot

“We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But…

— Jim Elliot

Begin each day with private reading of the Word and prayer.

— Jim Elliot