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Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.

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
Saves
Cynicism
Sin
Christianity

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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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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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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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God doesn't have any grandchildren.
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If we know how to pray, we know how to live.
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A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.
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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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Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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To live by worry is to live against reality
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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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When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
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When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.
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If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day.
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