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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.
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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The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.
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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.
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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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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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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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When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
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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 prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful no more, no less.
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If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
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The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it
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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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Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.
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The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
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In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.
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