Quotes from E Stanley Jones

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

Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

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.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.