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Jim Eliot penned the words but he no doubt was not the first to utter the words. Jim Elliot was one of five American missionaries murdered on day in the jungles of South America.[URL unfurl="true"]https://sharperiron.org/article/jim-elliot-was-not-first-to-say-it[/URL]Jim Elliot Was Not the First to Say ItDouglas K. Kutilek Wed, 10/19/16 12:00 amJim ElliotBooksImageReprinted with permission from As I See It, which is available free by writing to the editor at dkutilek@juno.com.“He is no fool who gives away what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.”That quote is universally associated today with the name Jim Elliot, one of five American missionaries who were martyred in South America in the 1950s. He had indeed written them in his journal, and they convey a profound truth. But they did not originate with Elliot. Almost those precise words were spoken and written centuries earlier.
Jim Eliot penned the words but he no doubt was not the first to utter the words. Jim Elliot was one of five American missionaries murdered on day in the jungles of South America.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://sharperiron.org/article/jim-elliot-was-not-first-to-say-it[/URL]
Douglas K. Kutilek Wed, 10/19/16 12:00 am
Jim Elliot
Books
Reprinted with permission from As I See It, which is available free by writing to the editor at dkutilek@juno.com.
“He is no fool who gives away what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.”
That quote is universally associated today with the name Jim Elliot, one of five American missionaries who were martyred in South America in the 1950s. He had indeed written them in his journal, and they convey a profound truth. But they did not originate with Elliot. Almost those precise words were spoken and written centuries earlier.
