Quotes from E Stanley Jones
Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you
- E Stanley Jones
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
- E Stanley Jones
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
- E Stanley Jones
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.
- E Stanley Jones
We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.
- E Stanley Jones
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
- E Stanley Jones
An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
- E Stanley Jones
If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
- E Stanley Jones
The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it
- E Stanley Jones
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
- E Stanley Jones
In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
- E Stanley Jones
Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
- E Stanley Jones