E. Stanley Jones Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Abundant living means abundant giving.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Mean, Giving

• 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.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Giving, Forever, Grace

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

• 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.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Country, Spiritual, Morning

• 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.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Adventure, Giving, Thank God

• 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.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Brother, Son, Men

• 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.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Giving Up, Moving, God Love

• Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Giving, Grace, Giver

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

• 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.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Jesus, Character, Two

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