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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
Theologian
Baltimore
Maryland
Eli Stanley Jones
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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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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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There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
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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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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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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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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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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
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A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
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In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.
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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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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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Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.
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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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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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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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When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.
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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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