Sunt multe tipuri de cărți in lumea asta. Dar preferatele mele sunt cele care îți rămân in suflet pentru totdeauna, cele care nu te lasă sa eziti când cineva te întreabă care ii cartea ta preferata. Iar “Umbra Celui Atotputernic” este o carte care m-a răscolit pana in străfundul inimii. As spune ca va face la fel cu orice cititor, dar cred ca lectura acestei biografii este o călătorie unica pentru fiecare cititor in parte. Am înțeles atât de multe aspecte despre viața și modul in care ea trebuie trăită, despre ce înseamnă iubirea fata de oameni și iubirea pentru divinitate. Modul in care omul asta gândea și își trăia viața este atat de actual și de sincer și e imposibil sa nu fii marcat de puterea mesajului acestei cărți.

Adore Elisabeth Elliot and Jim’s entries taught me so much about prayer and perspective

"I tell you truly that unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains a single grain of wheat; but if it dies, it brings a good harvest. The man who loves his own life will lose it, and the man who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life." - John 12.24

I loved this book. No more words needed.

God made and gifted Jim Elliot for the short, intense life and bold death He led him to, and I honor that. He didn't make me anything like him, so I didn't find him compelling in that way. He'd have thought much less of me, and probably rightly so, for I have greater faults of character, not just differences of personality. The parts of the story that are compelling to me are told better in other places (the format of this volume, a string of quotes from Jim's letters and journal entries, is a bit choppy).

I was glad to have Elisabeth reading it. For me, she is the greatest gift to come out of Jim's story.

I am a lover of biographies, especially Christian missionary biographies, which is exactly what this book is. Jim Elliot was a man passionately in love with God and he decided that he wanted to share the truth about God with an unreached people group in South America. The powerful aspect of this story is that this people group killed other individuals that were not members of their tribe quite regularly. Jim Elliot ended up getting married to Elisabeth Elliot after he had become comfortable with the Indian's language in South America. They had not been married long and Jim was eventually killed by this people group along with a few other missionaries that were serving with him. Even more moving was the fact that Elisabeth Elliot and another wife of a man that was killed decided that they wanted to go back to the people group and share Christ with them out of love for them and showing that they forgave them even though they had killed their husbands. This is an incredible story that I would recommend to everyone.

As it is a self proclaimed "modern Christian classic" I wanted to give this book 5 stars. I love that the book is made up of letters and Jim's personal journals but I felt the section of his college years could have been condensed a bit.

That being said, it was very convicting, enlightening, and challenging. Every Christian ought to read this and experience the passion he had for the lost and unreached.

A must read!

I love the story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, but this one dragged a bit. Most of the text are direct quotations from Jim's journals and letters. There is a lot to be gleaned from those, for sure, but it didn't make for easy reading. I would recommend Through Gates of Splendor over this one.

This book convicted, excited, and scared me. Currently my favorite book I have read in the last 6 months hands down. Read it. If nothing else, google the summary!

Jim Elliot was a young missionary who was killed by the natives of the country he was evangelizing in. This book is written by his wife and essentially reproduces his entire diary with some comments here and there on her perspective. The diary of course abruptly ends at his death, but up until that point we get to see all that was happening in his life. At some points, it was clear Elliot didn't have a firm grasp of theology. But he did have a firm grasp of Christ. Or I should say that Christ had grasped him. Despite some moralistic tendencies of Elliot, it was clear that Elliot was a faithful Christian even before becoming a missionary and upon becoming a missionary, that simply did not change.

Just like Elizabeth intended for Valerie to know her father through this book, I think everyone that reads it feels like they knew Jim too.

Definitely a cool testimony to model after ! It simply took me a while to read with school happening, can be a bit dense and slow at parts but I’m excited to look back on my annotations!