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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
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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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In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.
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A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
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A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.
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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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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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When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful no more, no less.
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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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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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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.
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Everybody who belongs to Christ belongs to everybody who belongs to Christ
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When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
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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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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.
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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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Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you
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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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If we know how to pray, we know how to live.
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A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.
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