If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos. E. Stanley Jones More Quotes by E. Stanley Jones More Quotes From E. Stanley Jones The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being E. Stanley Jones enlighteningemotionmind Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You help God from within by turning in outgoing love to others, and miraculously your fears and doubts and self-centeredness will vanish. The miracle starts within, not from without. E. Stanley Jones miracleselfwaiting The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion. E. Stanley Jones responsibilityheavenscience Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver. E. Stanley Jones gracespiritforever Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes. E. Stanley Jones inwardpurposespiritual Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil. E. Stanley Jones oilchristianworry To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. E. Stanley Jones brothermenson Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will. E. Stanley Jones ill-willhavensrooms While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. Nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake. The yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery. E. Stanley Jones lightsweetlove In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to a appear better than we really are. E. Stanley Jones spiritualmorningcountry Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. E. Stanley Jones prayingprayermean A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him. E. Stanley Jones kneesnailshands The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. E. Stanley Jones importantmindaction When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born. E. Stanley Jones movementchurchspirit We grow small trying to be great. E. Stanley Jones ambitioninspirationalfunny Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him? E. Stanley Jones wantchrist Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. E. Stanley Jones purpose-of-godpurposeprayer 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 movementbelieforder Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. E. Stanley Jones temptationmistakemean Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to look upon negativism as prudence and inferiorities as humility. Strip off those false cloaks and see these attitudes in their nakedness - as enemies of you and of your possibilities. E. Stanley Jones humilityattitudeenemy
