Jim Elliot Quotes

I guess I would say true happiness is to love and be loved. Of course, having enough money for food, shelter, health care and things like that all help, but that is more about security.

Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.

Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

The service of sin is perfect slavery.

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

I get joy, and actually, a high... by putting a quarter in a meter.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

The Bible teaches that all sin begins with sinful thinking.

Death from sin no power can separate.

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

Sin will pluck on sin.