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We grow small trying to be great.

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E. Stanley Jones
Age: 89 †
Born: 1884
Born: January 3
Died: 1973
Died: January 25
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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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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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I have surrendered to God therefore I surrender to nothing else.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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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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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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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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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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God doesn't have any grandchildren.
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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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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
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Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.
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An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
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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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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.
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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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