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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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When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.
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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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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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We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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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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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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A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.
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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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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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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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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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When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful no more, no less.
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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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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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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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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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We grow small trying to be great.
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