E. Stanley Jones Quotes - Page 3

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• I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

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  Faith, Hands, Being True

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• I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely - these are my native air.

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  Fear, Air, Land

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• A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.

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  Hands, Nails, Knees

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• When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.

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  Sunshine, Christ, Mets

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• 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.

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  Mistake, May, Action

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• If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day.

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  Ifs

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• The universe does not make sense without God.

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  Doe, Make Sense, Without God

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• Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.

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  Spiritual, Inward, Purpose

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• Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to look upon negativism as prudence and inferiorities as humility. Strip off those false cloaks and see these attitudes in their nakedness - as enemies of you and of your possibilities.

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  Attitude, Humility, Enemy

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• To live by worry is to live against reality

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  Reality, Worry, Live By

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• Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.

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  Three, Earth

  E. Stanley Jones (1984). “The way: 364 adventures in daily living”

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• Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

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  Failing, Should, Terrible

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• In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to a appear better than we really are.

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  Country, Spiritual, Morning

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

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  Christian, Home, Doe

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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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  Giving Up, Moving, God Love

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• When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

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  Faces

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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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  God, Heart, Blood

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• The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

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  Law, Moral, Constitution

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• Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

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  Adventure, Giving, Thank God

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• If we know how to pray, we know how to live.

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  Praying, Know How, Knows

  E. Stanley Jones (2015). “How to Pray”, p.3, Ravenio Books

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

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  Mistake, Mean, Temptation

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• Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.

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  Christian, Helping, Help Me

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• I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.

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  Surrender

  E. Stanley Jones (1946). “The Way”

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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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  Spirit, Cooperation, Holy

  "Weekend (John 16: 7-15)" by Pastor Chris Kam,

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• We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.

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  Kingdoms, Pursue

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