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. E. Stanley Jones More Quotes by E. Stanley Jones More Quotes From E. Stanley Jones Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian. E. Stanley Jones christian doe home 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. E. Stanley Jones character jesus thinking If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day. E. Stanley Jones ifs Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism. E. Stanley Jones cynicism sin christianity I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else. E. Stanley Jones surrender Whatever we focus on determines what we become. E. Stanley Jones determine focus Grace binds you with far stronger cords than the cords of duty or obligation can bind you. 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. Like produces like. Grace makes you gracious, the Giver makes you give. E. Stanley Jones grace forever giving Life is supplied with a basic adequacy. E. Stanley Jones adequacy life-is I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God. E. Stanley Jones being-true faith hands Surrender the thing you fear into the hands of God. Turn it right over to God and ask Him to solve it with you. Fear is keeping things in your own hands; faith is E. Stanley Jones turns surrender hands 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. E. Stanley Jones work-out prayer exercise When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine. E. Stanley Jones mets sunshine christ 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. E. Stanley Jones giving-up god-love moving God doesn't have any grandchildren. E. Stanley Jones grandchildren Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you E. Stanley Jones christian-inspirational holding-on christian We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us. E. Stanley Jones pursue kingdoms When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent. E. Stanley Jones compulsion praying feels A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ. E. Stanley Jones rejected christ In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. E. Stanley Jones church desire ordinary When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything. E. Stanley Jones faces
