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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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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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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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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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.
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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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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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When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
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Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.
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When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.
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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 is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.
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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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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 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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Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'
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A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.
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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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The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.
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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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