JIM ELLIOT

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

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

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

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

Wherever you are - be all there.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

When you find out that 40 percent of the big corporate taxpayers paid less than $500 in tax, you begin to think something is amiss.

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

What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.

The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as I analyze my feelings now, I feel quite at ease about saying that tribal work in South American jungles is the general direction of my missionary purpose.

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.

Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It's free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.

I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers.

Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.

Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

Domesticated males aren't much use for adventure.

No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him. We need more of this 'being asleep' in the will of God.

How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.