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Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you

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
Merely
Faith
Christian
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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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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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When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
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If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.
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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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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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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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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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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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We grow small trying to be great.
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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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The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being
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Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.
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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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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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