Name: Through Gates of Splendor
Rating: 4.55 (10 reviews)
ISBN: 9780842371513

Elisabeth Elliot

Through Gates of Splendor

Jeweliet Coffee

Jim practiced what he preached when he wrote in his diary: “Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God." 

“In appreciation of beauty, mountains, music, poetry, knowledge, people, science-even in the tang of an apple-God is there, to reffect the joy of His presence in the believer who will realize God's purposes in all things." 

“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”

When life’s flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight wil have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord." 

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." 

“I want to be free of self-pity. It is a tool of Satan to rot away a life.”

“God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.”

“It is not the level of our spirituality that we can depend on. It is God and nothing less than God, for the work is God's and the call is God's and everything is summoned by Him and to His purposes, the whole scene, the whole mess, the whole package-our bravery and our cowardice, our love and our selfishness, our strengths and our weaknesses.”

Taneil Casey

This story is truly an inspiration, even to those who may never leave their hometown in the USA. Are you fully living a life abandoned to God? Are you willing to give up everything and everyone, including yourself, in order to serve Him? Serious food for thought.

Although I thought this book was very good, I remember enjoying [b:Jungle Pilot: The gripping story of the life and witness of Nate Saint, martyred missionary to Ecuador|581910|Jungle Pilot  The gripping story of the life and witness of Nate Saint, martyred missionary to Ecuador|Russell T. Hitt|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175998472s/581910.jpg|568783] even more. It tells the same story. I would encourage anyone who is interested to move on to that book as well.

Through Gates of Splendor

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