Voices and influences
Jim Elliot
Speared to death at twenty-eight on an Ecuadorian sandbar, ten years after writing that he was no fool who gives what he cannot keep.
Summary
This site quotes Jim Elliot 1 times across 1 book, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 1927 to 1956, American.
- Quoted here most in Mark: 1 of 1.
Jim Elliot
- Lived
- 1927 to 1956
- Nation
- American
- Tradition
- Plymouth Brethren
- Portrait
- None held under a licence this site can print
1 of 1 quotations
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“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Mark 8:35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it. BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes Jim Elliot 1 times across 1 book.
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The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
Jim Elliot was a wrestler and a Greek student at Wheaton College who decided while still a student that he would spend his life where the gospel had never been. He reached Ecuador in 1952 and married Elisabeth Howard the next year. With four other young men he began making contact with the Waorani, a people so feared by their neighbors that outsiders called them killers, lowering gifts to them from a small plane in a bucket on a line and shouting friendly phrases they had learned. In January 1956 the five landed on a sandbar in the Curaray River. On January 8 a group of Waorani men speared all five to death. Elisabeth Elliot and Rachel Saint, sister of the pilot, later went to live among the same people; some of the men who did the killing became believers and helped carry the message onward. Elliot was twenty-eight. He had written at twenty-two: he is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
1 quotation across 1 book