Quotes from E Stanley Jones

If there were no God, we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

Around the world the problem of Christian work is the problem of the Christian worker.

Seeley was right when he said that "moral deterioration is bound to set in in any subject race".

Who has not seen a frail, clinging-vine type of woman, who upon the death of her husband strainghtens up and becomes an oak, around which the growing children twine their lives, and are forever greatful for such a mother? But this strength would never have come out and developed had it not been for the tears that watered the vine and made it into an oak.

Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.

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!

We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

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.

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

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