Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was. Jim Elliot
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-
Unknown
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
-
Nicholas Sparks
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
-
Chuck Palahniuk
Where there is love there is life.
-
Mahatma Gandhi
It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted....
-
Henry Rollins
More Quotes By Jim Elliot
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!
Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less.
I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut...
The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether ‘good and acceptable and perfect.’ The considerate love of the Lord Jesus for us seems such a kind thing now. I know it has always been so, but somehow I didn’t see how wise it was when...
