Frases de Jim Elliot

Philip James "Jim" Elliot era um cristão protestante, um dos 5 missionários mortos enquanto participavam da Operation Auca, uma tentativa de evangelizar os Huaorani, um povo do Equador. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Outubro 1927 – 8. Janeiro 1956
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Jim Elliot: Frases em inglês

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”

Journal excerpt from Shadow of the Almighty (1989) by Elisabeth Elliot, Jim Elliot, 1949
This quote is a paraphrase of Elliot's from the original quote (below) by English nonconformist clergyman Philip Henry (1631-1696)
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“He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.”

Quoted from The life of the Rev. Philip Henry, A.M., Matthew Henry, J. B. Williams, pub. W. Ball, 1839 p. 35 ( Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=BUfCH_MaUS8C)
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