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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.
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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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.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.
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When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
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If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day.
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If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.
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There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
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