“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
Jim Elliot (1927–1956) Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador
“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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Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: The Journals of Jim Elliot
Jim Elliot (1927–1956) Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador
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) <br class="br">Misattributed
“He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.”
William Drummond of Logiealmond (1770–1828) Scottish diplomat and Member of Parliament, poet and philosopher
in Academical Questions (1805), Preface, p. 15 http://books.google.com/books?id=U9FOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR15
“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist
