E. Stanley Jones Quotes

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  • Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.

  • The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being

  • Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  • In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  • Be victorious in the home, and you are victorious everywhere.

  • A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.

  • There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.

  • Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

  • The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!”

  • At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

  • Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

  • The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.

  • A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

  • Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

  • I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?

  • You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

  • Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

  • To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!

  • God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

  • The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

  • Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.

  • The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

  • To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.

  • When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

  • Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

  • When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  • Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give.

    Giving  
    E. Stanley Jones (1984). “The way: 364 adventures in daily living”
  • Everybody who belongs to Christ belongs to everybody who belongs to Christ

  • When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

  • Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

    E. Stanley Jones (1984). “The way: 364 adventures in daily living”
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