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When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful no more, no less.
E. Stanley Jones
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E. Stanley Jones
Age: 89 †
Born: 1884
Born: January 3
Died: 1973
Died: January 25
Missionary
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Baltimore
Maryland
Eli Stanley Jones
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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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A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
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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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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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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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A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.
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