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If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

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
Christian
Christ
Surrender
Chaos
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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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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 road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
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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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When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful no more, no less.
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