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E. Stanley Jones
Age: 89 †
Born: 1884
Born: January 3
Died: 1973
Died: January 25
Missionary
Theologian
Baltimore
Maryland
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The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being
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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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When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.
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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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Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'
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In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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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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When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.
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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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If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.
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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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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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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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A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.
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Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.
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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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The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.
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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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