Missionary Jim Elliot Quotes & Sayings

Focus on things that are small enough to change, but big enough to matter — Kat Cole

At three-thirty, she announced, I gotta get going. I'm supposed to meet my sister in the Ginza. — Haruki Murakami

Father Romain always made much of our being from the same place, just as Sebatstien did. Most people here did. It was a way of being joined to your old life through the presence of another person. At times you could sit for a whole evening with such individuals, just listening to their existence unfold, from the house where they were born to the hill where they wanted to be buried. It was their way of returning home, with you as a witness or as someone to bring them back to the present ... — Edwidge Danticat

But no matter how life looks at the moment, if we trust that it looks this way for a reason that will help us and others in the future, we can deal with this moment with a much stronger sense of purpose and acceptance. — Tom Walsh

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think we can work through a lot of these issues. — William P. Leahy

An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing. — Robert Carlyle

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. — Ambrose Bierce

I told you I'm poetic, right? The truth is, I wasn't always. Not until this moment. She's magnificent - angelic - gorgeous. Pick a word, any fucking word. The bottom line is, for a moment, I forget how to breathe. — Emma Chase

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. — Jim Elliot

There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change. — Jennifer Granholm

It's hard to steer a parked car. — Jim Elliot

It's still perfect, which is how things are before you try them, how people are before you love them, or think you love them. — Eve Jagger

Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality. — Stephen Jay Gould

No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance. — Hortense Odlum

You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid ... . You refuse to do it because you want to live longer ... . You're afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you're afraid that somebody will stab you, or shoot at you or bomb your house; so you refuse to take the stand.
Well, you may go on and live until you are 90, but you're just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. — Martin Luther King Jr.