“When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to "destroy the wisdom of the wise.”
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“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador”
― The Journals of Jim Elliot
― The Journals of Jim Elliot
“A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.”
― The Normal Christian Life
― The Normal Christian Life
“Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.”
― The Normal Christian Life
― The Normal Christian Life
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