Zitat des Tages von Jim Elliot:
Domesticated males aren't much use for adventure.
Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.
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.
Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Begin each day with private reading of the Word and prayer.
Wherever you are - be all there.
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
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.
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.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
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.
Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
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.
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.
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.
