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• As your life is in His hands, so are the days of your life. But don’t let the sands of time get into the eye of your vision to reach those who sit in darkness. They simply must hear.

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  Eye, Hands, Darkness

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• I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons.

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  Thanksgiving, Son, Light

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• Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

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  Knowing, Earth, Excitement

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

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  Eye, Simplicity, Denial

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• What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?

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  Heart, Godly, Greek

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• Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar

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  Father, Fire, Blood

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• The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for.

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  Bigger, Gods Will, Bargains

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• Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.

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  Christian, Heart, World

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

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  Children, Arrows, Devil

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• It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us.

  Jim Elliot

  Writing, Thinking, Blessing

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

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  Voice, Missionary, Needs

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• We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

  Jim Elliot

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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

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  Eye, Mouths, Eternity

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• Desire is the putting of my will into God’s concern. It’s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of thing, which says, 'Well, I’m willing, if God would only give me a good swift kick and send me.' That’s willingness all right. But God doesn’t want willingness, He wants will! He wants your will put behind those desires.

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  Giving, Desire, Sitting

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• I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.

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  Jesus, Passion, Men

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• Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.

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  Trying, Bunch, Folks

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

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  Temptation, Rebel, Way

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• None of it gets to be 'old stuff', for it is Christ in print, the Living Word. We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a facewash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility

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  Morning, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing.

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  Writing, Fate, Bored

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• I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.

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  Men, Thinking, Missionary

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• I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence on this life of mine than your prayers.

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  Christian, Prayer, Powerful

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

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  Forget

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

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  Son, Grieving, Vision

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• Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less.

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  Dream, Hands, Doe

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

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  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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