Do you remember the first time you heard it?
Sixty years ago today, Jim Elliot penned those well known words: “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
Do you remember the first time you heard this quotation? Has it influenced your life?
If so, would you take a few moments to tell us about it?
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I remember hearing it while working at an government run in-patient treament centre. While I don’t think that my Christianity was overt, it was apparently known among the clients and staff. My employer, who was an atheist, told me one day that as long as I held to my Christian beliefs, I’d received the last promotion that I’d ever get in that workplace.
Although I had no doubt that God would continue to take care of me, I found Jim Elliot’s quote tremendously encouraging.
For what it’s worth, a few months later my employer was fired for mismanaging funds and I got his job.
Wow. That is cool.
I can’t really remember the first time for me, but I’m pretty sure it was at junior camp when I was eleven. The quote was very instrumental in my life as a young man and shaped my entire mentality for years after.