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E. Stanley Jones

American,  Theologian
Total Quotes : 26
God Redemption His

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

- E. Stanley Jones

Christian Christian Home

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

- E. Stanley Jones

Think Add Standard

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

- E. Stanley Jones

Love Nature Reveal

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.

- E. Stanley Jones

Mind Easter Given

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

- E. Stanley Jones

Actions Intentions Our

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

- E. Stanley Jones

New Here Through

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.

- E. Stanley Jones

Supplied Adequacy Basic

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

- E. Stanley Jones

Prayer Religion Purposes

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

- E. Stanley Jones

Reaction Holy Upheld

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

- E. Stanley Jones

Other Code Set

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.

- E. Stanley Jones

Love Give Outgoing

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.

- E. Stanley Jones

Over Holy Lives

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.

- E. Stanley Jones

Great Small Grow

We grow small trying to be great.

- E. Stanley Jones

Feel Sense Compulsion

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.

- E. Stanley Jones

Better Desire Appear

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

- E. Stanley Jones

Prayer Means Total

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

- E. Stanley Jones

Mistake May Very

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.

- E. Stanley Jones

Giving Depend Some

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.

- E. Stanley Jones

Freedom Living Nor

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

- E. Stanley Jones