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Vote: | Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me. |
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Vote: | Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all. |
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Vote: | God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. |
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Vote: | Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly. |
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Vote: | He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. |
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Vote: | I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man. |
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Vote: | I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. |
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Vote: | It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners. |
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Vote: | Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. |
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Vote: | Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you. |
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Vote: | The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God. |
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Vote: | Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing. |
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Philip James Elliot (October 8, 1927 – January 8, 1956) was a Christian missionary to Ecuador, where he was killed by Huaorani Indians.
Elliot was born in Portland, Oregon to Fred and Clara Elliot, and became a Christian at a young age. He graduated from Wheaton College in 1949, with a degree in Greek. He arrived in Ecuador on February 21, 1952, with the purpose of evangelizing Ecuador's Quechua Indians. On October 8, 1953, he married fellow Wheaton alumnus and missionary Elisabeth Howard in Quito, Ecuador. Their only child, Valerie, was born February 27, 1955. While working with the Quechua Indians, Elliot began preparing to reach the famously violent Huaorani Indian tribe. He and four other missionaries, Ed McCully, Roger Youderian, Peter Fleming and their pilot Nate Saint, made contact from their airplane with the Huaorani Indians, using a loudspeaker and a basket to pass down gifts. After several months, the men decided to build a base a short distance from the Indian tribe, along the Curaray River. There they were approached several times by small groups of Huaorani Indians, and even gave an airplane ride to one curious Huaorani who they called "George" (his real name was Naenkiwi). Encouraged by these friendly encounters, they began plans to visit the Huaorani, but their plans were preempted by the arrival of a larger group of Huaorani, who killed Elliot and his four companions on January 8, 1956. Elliot's mutilated body was found downstream, along with those of the other men, except that of Ed McCully.
Elliot and his friends became instantly known worldwide as martyrs, and Life Magazine published a 10-page article on their mission and death. They are credited with sparking an interest in Christian missions among the youth of their time, and are still considered an encouragement to Christian missionaries working throughout the world. After her husband's death, Elisabeth Elliot and other missionaries began working among the Auca Indians, where they had a profound impact and won many converts. She later published two books, Shadow of the Almighty : The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot and Through Gates of Splendor, which describe the life and death of her husband.
References *Biography at In Touch Ministries
*Biography from hyperhistory.net
*Five Missionary Martyrs
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