E. Stanley Jones Quotes - Page 4

In the pure, strong hours of the morning, when the soul of the day is at its best, lean upon the window sill of God and look into his face, and get the orders for the day. Then go out into the day with the sense of a hand upon your shoulder and not a chip.

We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.

Be victorious in the home, and you are victorious everywhere.

A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.

Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

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

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

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

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'

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.

I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?

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.

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.

When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.

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.

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.

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give.