Jim Elliot Quotes

My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

If God had me run for something, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

When God commands, do it!

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have us to do about those things that are concerning to us.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

I mean to live my life as an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

Certainly there is no contending against the will of God, but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining it, and applying it, to particular cases.

I believe God wants me to be President.

I will stay faithful to what God has called me to do all the days of my life, and I don't try to figure it out.

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.