The Journals of Jim Elliot Quotes

“When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!”
― Jim Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador”
― Elisabeth Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot

“May 2 Numbers 6 The Nazarite was holy in three negative ways: (1) he must not touch the grape; (2) he must not cut his hair; (3) he must not touch a dead body. Were I to transopose such consecration into new testament parallels I suppose this would be the setup:

1. Grapes-- the source of natural joy--that which makes glad the heart of man. This is denying oneself the allowable pleasures for the sake of a greater holiness.

2. The long hair of man is his shame. He must let it grow so that he becomes unashamed of shame--reproach bearing for God.

3. Seperation from evil in all their doings--yea,even from family pulls (v.7).

I know little of any of these.”
― Jim Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot

“I walked out to the hill just now. It is exalting, delicious. To stand embraced by the shadows of a friendly tree with the wind tugging at your coattail and the heavens hailing your heart, to gaze and glory and to give oneself again to God, what more could a man ask? Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth. I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap, in mercy, He shall give me a host of children that I may lead through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose fingers' ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, smell His garments, and smile into my Lover's eyes, ah, then, not stars, nor children, shall matter--only Himself.”
― Jim Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot

“But clouds are fickle. For it was only an hour or so before they had turned their faces to reflect the grim glory of a ghastly grinning moon.”
― Jim Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot

“Be faithful in seeking asses and thou shalt be honored in God's own time.”
― Jim Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot

“Noted that the sea, like experiencing the will of God, changes its color in distance. Up close it holds its own color, blue green and white. But as it is more distant, it takes on the color of the sky, shining not of itself, but of its cover. Incidents in life, while I am in them, are colored themselves , their mood is set by the circumstantial context. Only as one moves away from them, can he see another color, the heavenly, shining in them. The will of God, the hues of Heaven, is not always felt as I experience a situation in life, but as it passes from me, I begin to see God over it, and it assumes its beauty from simply being under his sky.”
― Jim Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot

“Oh, the power of words! They stir in me, charge me with some sort of emotional ferocity, so that I enjoy a slapping wind when coming home from the library. It animates things, too. I find myself trying to fit apt, cryptic words into the description of a tree, a street lamp. a passerby. what is in it? Why should absorption in printed words so change attitudes? It cannot be the words alone, but the whole effect of transmitted idea.”
― Jim Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot