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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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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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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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When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful no more, no less.
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A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.
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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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The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being
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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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To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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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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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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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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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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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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The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it
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We grow small trying to be great.
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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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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 the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.
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