E. Stanley Jones Quotes

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• The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!”

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  Christian, Looks, Delight

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• Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

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  Prayer, Cooperation, Boat

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• When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

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  Men, Empowering, Praying

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• A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

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  Peace, Hate, Thinking

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• Surrender the thing you fear into the hands of God. Turn it right over to God and ask Him to solve it with you. Fear is keeping things in your own hands; faith is
  turning them over into the hands of God.

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  Hands, Surrender, Turns

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• There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.

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  Two, Want, Way

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• When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.

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  Believe, Divides

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• When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Prayerful

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• You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.

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  Growing, Old You, Grows

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• When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ

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  Ideas, Christ, Ought

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• Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you

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  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Holding On

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• If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

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  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• 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 bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.

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  Responsibility, Science, Heaven

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• We grow small trying to be great.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Ambition

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• The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it

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  Christian, God's Plan, Life Is

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• Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

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  Inspirational, Choices, Saying Yes

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• If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.

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  Thinking, Surrender, Surrender To God

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

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  Ill Will, Rooms, Havens

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• If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.

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  Mind, Ifs, Make Up Your Mind

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• Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.

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  Jesus, Missing, Needs

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• The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.

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  God Love, Gods Will

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• 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!

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  Jesus, Home, Feelings

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• To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!

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  Waiting, Lost, Walking With God

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• The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being

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  Mind, Emotion, Enlightening

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• Whatever we focus on determines what we become.

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  Focus, Determine

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