E. Stanley Jones Quotes
The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!”
When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.
The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.
When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
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.
The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.
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.
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!
When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being
An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
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.
When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.
A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.
When Satan attacks you, command him in the Name of Jesus to bend his neck. On the back of it you'll find there's a nail scarred foot print!
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.
At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.
The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.
The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.
If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day.
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.
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.