Quotes from E Stanley Jones

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.

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

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

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

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.

We grow small trying to be great.

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

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

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.