Words matter. These are the best E. Stanley Jones Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing – so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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.
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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.
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
