Jim Elliot: No man is a fool who gives away what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot…
No man is a fool who gives away what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot loose.
- Source
- From the book Shadow of the Almighty, Jim Elliot's journal, 1949; published 1989
- Often credited to
- Often attributed to Jonathan Edwards.
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