Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
Jim ElliotRead
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a desire for balance in personal virtues, seeking strength and love that are not extreme or rigid.
Jim Elliot's quote highlights the importance of embodying strength and steadfastness while maintaining a compassionate and loving spirit. It suggests that true firmness should not lead to harshness, and steadfastness should coexist with open-mindedness. Likewise, love should be powerful but not frail or vulnerable to exploitation. Elliot emphasizes the need for a balanced character that can navigate life's challenges with wisdom and kindness.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech on personal development.
Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
God deliver me from the dread asbestos of βother things.β Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.
I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence on this life of mine than your prayers.
God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.
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.
None of it gets to be 'old stuff', for it is Christ in print, the Living Word. We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a facewash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.
Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.
Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A lifeβs work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
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