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If we know how to pray, we know how to live.

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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Eli Stanley Jones
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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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If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
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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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A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
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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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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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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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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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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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The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.
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Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.
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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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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.
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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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When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
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The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being
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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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