138 Quotes by E. Stanley Jones

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.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

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.

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.

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

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

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