E. Stanley Jones Quotes

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• We grow small trying to be great.
• The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system…
• 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…
• The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little…
• 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…
• A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
• 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…
• Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
• Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you
• The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it
• Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
• 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…
• A Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a…
• 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…
• Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.
• 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.
• Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
• 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…
• Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
• 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…

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