E. Stanley Jones Quotes - Page 2

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.

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

Whatever we focus on determines what we become.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

Everybody who belongs to Christ belongs to everybody who belongs to Christ

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

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 binds you with far stronger cords than the cords of duty or obligation can bind you. 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. Like produces like. Grace makes you gracious, the Giver makes you give.

While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. Nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake. The yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery.

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.

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

Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.

When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

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.

We grow small trying to be great.

Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.

Abundant living means abundant giving.

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.

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.

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

All coming to Jesus has the feeling of homecoming upon it. All going away from Him has the sense of estrangement upon it. The rich young ruler went away from Jesus "sorrowful." Everybody does. Not only estrangement from God, but also estrangement from oneself. And the universe! And from life! You are not at home with life, unless you are at home with Life. And Jesus is Life!

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