A Quote by Jim Elliot

Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

Jim Elliot

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Jim Elliot
American - Priest
October 8, 1927 - January 8, 1956

My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

Jim Carroll

There are many other arrows in our diplomatic quiver.

Condoleezza Rice

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Robert Blair

I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

Foster Friess

Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.

Arthur Lismer

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.

Burton Richter

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Khalil Gibran

The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.

Lord Byron

God doesn't send His children to Hell either. It's just the Devil's children that God sends to Hell. Why should God look after the Devil's children.

John R. Rice

Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at great financial and personal sacrifice...They reflect honor to mothers who sacrificed to remain home for their children's benefit.

Richard G. Scott

All of us now are serving and will continue to serve as lifelong missionaries. We are missionaries every day in our families, in our schools, in our places of employment, and in our communities. Regardless of our age, experience, or station in life, we are all missionaries.