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

E. Stanley Jones

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E. Stanley Jones
Age: 89 †
Born: 1884
Born: January 3
Died: 1973
Died: January 25
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Eli Stanley Jones
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Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.
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When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.
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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!
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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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I have surrendered to God therefore I surrender to nothing else.
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Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You help God from within by turning in outgoing love to others, and miraculously your fears and doubts and self-centeredness will vanish. The miracle starts within, not from without.
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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.
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Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.
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When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.
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A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.
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We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.
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When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.
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The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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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.
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In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.
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