E. Stanley Jones Quotes

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An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.

E. Stanley Jones
The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

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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.

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Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you

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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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I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?

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When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

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The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.

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In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

E. Stanley Jones