E. Stanley Jones
Quotes by E. Stanley Jones
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To live by worry is to live against reality
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We are not quite sure that the Sermon on the Mount is the Sermon for the mart. We are not sure, and an unsure place is an unsafe place* We must go on or go back. We must be more Christian or less.
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To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
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To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
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To live by worry is to live against reality
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We are not quite sure that the Sermon on the Mount is the Sermon for the mart. We are not sure, and an unsure place is an unsafe place* We must go on or go back. We must be more Christian or less.
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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.
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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.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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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.
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The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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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.
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.
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The universe does not make sense without God.
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