Jim Elliot Quotes

God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Christian life means sacrifice.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

I belong to Jesus. He must have the right to use me without consulting me.

If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.

My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?

The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.