"They were full of anticipation of what lay ahead, but at the same time they drank in the beauties of the great Amazon rain forest through which they passed. It was a virgin jungle. Trees with great buttress-shaped roots grew to tremendous heights, often with no branches except at the top. Under these umbrellas an incredible variety of flora thrives...Orchids everywhere lent their soft colors to the living green. Fungus grew in vivid colors and bizarre shapes - vermilion, shaped like the ruffle on a lady's dress; turqouise, shaped like a shell, half under a rotten log." [ p. 29]
"The missionaries prayed and discussed these problems, but still they felt themselves foreigners - felt that they would always be foreigners. The Indian himself must be the answer - he must learn the Scriptures, be taught, and in turn teach his own people." [p. 47]
"We have believed God for miracles, and this may include the Aucas. It has got to be by miracles in response to faith. No lesser expedient is a short-cut. O God, guide!" [Pete Fleming, p.47]
"Ed's love for the girl he was going to marry was wholehearted: "When anybody speaks to me, it takes everything I've got to stay with them in conversation. It's the craziest sensation! I'm beginning to believe everything the poets and songwriters have to say about love!" [p. 53]
"When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord." [Nate Saint, pilot of MSF p. 60]
"During the last war we were taught to recognize that, in order to obtain our objective, we had to be willing to be expendable...This very afternoon thousands of soldiers were known by their serial numbers as men who are expendable." [a short sermon by Nate Saint delivered over the missionary radio station HCJB-The Voice of the Andes in Quito, p. 60]
"While he [Nate Saint] was still in the Army he met Marj Farris, whom he later described in a letter: "Among other blessings, the greatest. She has just finished her State exams and is now a practicing registered nurse in California. She is a graduate of U. of California at Los Angeles, and ardent student of the Word, and has a challenging love for the lost. She is the most selfless person I have met in my life except my Mother. She is a meek girl of deep conviction ready for service for the Lord of the Harvest..." [p. 68]
"They started a Bible club for teenagers. Nate called the program "a sort of candy-box, loaded with Gospel dynamite."" [p. 70]
"A missionary plods through the first year or two, thinking that things will be different when he speaks the language. He is baffled to find, frequently, that they are not." [p. 151]
"As we have a high old time this Christmas, may we who known Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance. ..Beyond the smiling scenes of Bethlehem may we see the crushing agony of Golgotha. May God give us a new vision of His will concerning the lost and our responsibility." [Nate Saint, p. 176]
"I want to be free of self-pity. It is a tool of Satan to rot away a life. I am sure that this is the perfect will of God...The Lord has closed our hearts to grief and hysteria, and filled in with His perfect peace." [Elisabeth Elliot after the death of the five missionaries, p. 326]
"In the darkness of the night, with the firelight flickering on his face, and the sound of jungle birds and pumas' groans punctuating the air, this clearly spoken 'conversation' with God was of great emotional impact." [p. 240]
"To the world at large this was a sad waste of five young lives. But God has His plan purpose in all tings. There were those whose lives were changed by what happened on Palm Beach." [E. Elliot, p. 252]
"Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast start fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, and smile into His eyes - ah then, not starts nor children shall matter, only Himself". [Jim Elliot, p. 256]
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