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Jim Elliot

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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.
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Quoted from The life of the Rev. Philip Henry, A.M., Matthew Henry, J. B. Williams, pub. W. Ball, 1839 p. 35 (Google Books)

 
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