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We grow small trying to be great.

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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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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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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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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The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.
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When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.
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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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In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.
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Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'
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If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
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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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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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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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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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If we know how to pray, we know how to live.
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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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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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Surrender the thing you fear into the hands of God. Turn it right over to God and ask Him to solve it with you. Fear is keeping things in your own hands faith is turning them over into the hands of God.
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Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you
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