Jim Elliot Quotes

d. 1956

Philip James Elliot (October 8, 1927 – January 8, 1956), known as Jim Elliot, was a Christian missionary who was killed in Ecuador during the evangelizing effort known as Operation Auca.

Also known as: Elliot, Jim

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Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

Journal excerpt from Shadow of the Almighty (1989)

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

Misattributed Journal excerpt from Shadow of the Almighty (1989)

He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.

Misattributed

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jim Elliot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.