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To live by worry is to live against reality
E. Stanley Jones
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E. Stanley Jones
Age: 89 †
Born: 1884
Born: January 3
Died: 1973
Died: January 25
Missionary
Theologian
Baltimore
Maryland
Eli Stanley Jones
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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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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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When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
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When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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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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No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.
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The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.
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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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When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful no more, no less.
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The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being
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The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.
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If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
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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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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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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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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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We grow small trying to be great.
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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.
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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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