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When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.

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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Baltimore
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Eli Stanley Jones
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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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We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.
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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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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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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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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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Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'
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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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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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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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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.
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If we know how to pray, we know how to live.
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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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The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.
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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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I have surrendered to God therefore I surrender to nothing else.
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In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.
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