Jim Elliot Quotes

God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed.

God always wants us to be growing.

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

I'm not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change - not somebody else.

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us.

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

We will not know Him, until we become like him.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.

We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.