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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

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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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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We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.
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When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.
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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
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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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Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.
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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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A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.
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Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.
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When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
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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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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!
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In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.
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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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