Frasi di Jim Elliot

Jim Elliot era missionario (missionario evangelista).

✵ 8. Ottobre 1927 – 8. Gennaio 1956
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Jim Elliot: Frasi in inglese

“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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