E Stanley Jones Quotes

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

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

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. ~ E. Stanley Jones

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ. ~ E. Stanley Jones

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. ~ E. Stanley Jones

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won. ~ E. Stanley Jones

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. ~ E. Stanley Jones

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

A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ. ~ E. Stanley Jones

The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world! ~ E. Stanley Jones

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. ~ E. Stanley Jones

If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God. ~ E. Stanley Jones

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

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

But how does the Atonement motivate, invite, and draw all men unto the Savior? What causes this gravitational pull-- this spiritual tug? There is a certain compelling power that flows from righteous suffering-- not indiscriminate suffering, not needless suffering, but righteous, voluntary suffering for another. Such suffering for another is the highest and purest form of motivation we can offer to those we love. Contemplate that for a moment: How does one change the attitude or the course of conduct of a loved one whose every step seems bent on destruction? If example fails to influence, words of kindness go unheeded, and the powers of logic are dismissed as chaff before the wind, then where does one turn...
In the words of the missionary evangelist, E. Stanley Jones, suffering has "an intesnse moral appeal." Jones once asked Mahatma Gandhi as he sat on a cot in an open courtyard of Yervavda jail, "'Isn't your fasting a species of coercion?' 'Yes,' he said very slowly, 'the same kind of coercion which Jesus exercises upon you from the cross.'" As Jones reflected upon that sobering rejoinder, he said: "I was silent. It was so obviously true that I am silent again every time I think of it. He was prfoundly right. The years have clarified it. And I now see it for what it is: a very morally potent and redenptive power if used rightly. But it has to be used rightly. ~ Tad R. Callister

Nothing is ever really yours until you share it. ~ E. Stanley Jones

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer. ~ E. Stanley Jones

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things. ~ E. Stanley Jones

To live by worry is to live against reality ~ E. Stanley Jones

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption. ~ E. Stanley Jones

If we know how to pray, we know how to live. ~ E. Stanley Jones

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
turning them over into the hands of God. ~ E. Stanley Jones

Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart. ~ E. Stanley Jones

When Satan attacks you, command him in the Name of Jesus to bend his neck. On the back of it you'll find there's a nail scarred foot print! ~ E. Stanley Jones

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man. ~ E. Stanley Jones

In the pure, strong hours of the morning, when the soul of the day is at its best, lean upon the window sill of God and look into his face, and get the orders for the day. Then go out into the day with the sense of a hand upon your shoulder and not a chip. ~ E. Stanley Jones

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent. ~ E. Stanley Jones

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

I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else. ~ E. Stanley Jones

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil. ~ E. Stanley Jones

I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely - these are my native air. ~ E. Stanley Jones

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

You don't grow old. You get old by not growing. ~ E. Stanley Jones

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

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

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

Abundant living means abundant giving. ~ E. Stanley Jones

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

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

Obviously God must guide us in a way that will develop spontaneity in us. The development of character, rather than direction in this, that, and the other matter, must be the primary purpose of the Father. He will guide us, but he won't override us. That fact should make us use with caution the method of sitting down with a pencil and blank sheet of paper to write down the instructions dictated by God for the day. Suppose a parent would dictate to the child minutely everything he is to do during the day. The child would be stunted under that regime. The parent must guide in such a manner, and to the degree, that autonomous character, capable of making right decisions for itself, is produced. God does the same. ~ E. Stanley Jones

All coming to Jesus has the feeling of homecoming upon it. All going away from Him has the sense of estrangement upon it. The rich young ruler went away from Jesus "sorrowful." Everybody does. Not only estrangement from God, but also estrangement from oneself. And the universe! And from life! You are not at home with life, unless you are at home with Life. And Jesus is Life! ~ E. Stanley Jones

If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders
to something. ~ E. Stanley Jones

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. ~ E. Stanley Jones

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. ~ E. Stanley Jones

The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His. ~ E. Stanley Jones

The universe does not make sense without God. ~ E. Stanley Jones

Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.' ~ E. Stanley Jones

When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God's idea of God, and God's idea of God is Christ ~ E. Stanley Jones

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

If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you. ~ E. Stanley Jones

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian. ~ E. Stanley Jones

I have only to be true to the highest I know-success of failure is in the hand of God. ~ E. Stanley Jones

A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him. ~ E. Stanley Jones

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. ~ E. Stanley Jones

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future. ~ E. Stanley Jones

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

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. ~ E. Stanley Jones

The inner life is bruised by a running against the laws of the Kingdom. The bruises are guilt complexes, a sense of inferiority, of missing the mark, of being out of harmony with God and with oneself, a sense of wrongness. Divine forgiveness wipes out all that sense of inner hurt and condemnation. Brings a sense of at-homeness- at home with God and oneself and with life. The universe opens its arms and takes one in. You are accepted- by God, by yourself, and by life. All self-loathing, self-rejection, all inferiorities drop away. You are a child of God; born from above, you walk the earth, a conqueror, afraid of nothing. Healed at the heart, you can say to life: Come on, I'm ready for anything. ~ E. Stanley Jones

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian. ~ E. Stanley Jones

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. ~ E. Stanley Jones

There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants. ~ E. Stanley Jones

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers. ~ E. Stanley Jones

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. ~ E. Stanley Jones

To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on! ~ E. Stanley Jones

The key to project success is being proactive. Instead of waiting for others to tell you what to do, ~ Stanley E. Portny

Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing. ~ Stanley Schmidt

[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image. ~ Stanley Hauerwas

L.O.V.E Luscious Omnipresent Vibrational Energy ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

R.E.A.L Rationalizations Experienced Aligning Life ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Looking through the book, I realized that there actually were several kids I didn't know. Was it possible that I never shared a class with them in all twelve years of school? I scanned the yearbook ~ Stephen E. Stanley

In fact, I believe that theological interpretation runs the risk of jeopardizing what it means to be a responsible biblical hermeneut, by attempting to overlook or negate, whether consciously or not, a biblical hermeneutic. ~ Stanley E. Porter Jr.

2001's production notes contain a number of startlingly prescient glimpses of the world we live in today. As of mid-1965, approximately the same time that the US Department of Defense was conceiving of the internet's direct predecessor, ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), Kubrick's intrepid band of futurists had seemingly already visualized important aspects of the new technology's implications. One document sent from Tony Masters to Roger Caras on June 29 listed matter-of-factly - under a letterhead replete with the roaring MGM lion - nine props that he asked Caras to help him with. Number one was "2001 newspaper to be read on some kind of television screen. Should be designed television screen shape; i.e., wider than it is high. ~ Michael Benson

To the question whether I would admit that the cause of the decision of the atom has something in common with the cause of the decision of the brain, I would simply answer that there is no cause. In the case of the brain I have a deeper insight into the decision; this insight exhibits it as volition, i.e. something outside causality. ~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

In 1960, for example, the Committee for Long Range Studies of the Brookings Institution prepared a report for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration warning that even indirect contact - i.e., alien artifacts that might possibly be discovered through our space activities on the moon, Mars or Venus or via radio contact with an interstellar civilization - could cause severe psychological dislocations. The study cautioned that "Anthropological files contain many examples of societies, sure of their place in the universe, which have disintegrated when they have had to associate with previously unfamiliar societies espousing different ideas and different life ways; others that survived such an experience usually did so by paying the price of changes in values and attitudes and behavior. ~ Stanley Kubrick

What I've learned so far from researching is that to win the Stanley Cup, you have to make the playoffs. ~ Ted Leonsis

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit ~ Quincy Jones

When we arrive on our floor we head to our rooms, politely bidding each other goodnight. Just as I am about to enter mine, I remember I have his jacket. I can use this to have just one more moment with him tonight. I knock on his door, his lips slightly open when he sees me on the other side.

"You forgot your jacket." It is still on my shoulders. I turn around to offer it up to him.

"Thank you Shy," As he says this he takes both of his hands, grabbing each shoulder of the jacket and oh so slowly pulls it off of me, grazing my bare arms and back as he pulls it off. I close my eyes taking in his touch. Each caress of his fingertips feels like one thousand little sparks. How can just the faintest touch from this man set me off like this? Please kiss me. Kiss my neck. I won't say no. I hold my position for a second more than I should, but it feels so tortuously long. There is nothing, not another touch, not a kiss. I turn to face him again and bid him goodnight. His face looks sad, almost guilty. Every word, every touch, every action tonight was an implication. This keeps us safe from one another. It keeps me safe from him.

"Goodnight Shy," he says as if dismissing me from his presence.

"Goodnight Taylor. ~ Nina G. Jones

The ultimate rebellion wasn't fighting the system, it was circumventing the system and living your life fully. ~ Paul Stanley

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people. ~ Edward P. Jones

There is music in your soul. A wild and untamed sort
of music that speaks to me. It defies all the rules and laws you humans set upon it. It grows from inside you, and I have a wish to set that music free. ~ S. Jae-Jones

Vengeance is ours saith the Lord and the writers. ~ Stanley Christopher

A hurt mammal never forgets. Epigenetic theory suggests an almost Lamarckian transfer down the generations; some genes are activated by experiences, others are not. Genes, language, history: what it all meant in actual practice was that fear passed down through the years, altering organisms for generation after generation, thus altering the species. Fear, an evolutionary force. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

The 2006 playoffs were such a rollercoaster for me. I was able to lean on God and know that no matter what things were going to work out the way they were meant to work out. I had that trust that allowed me to go into the games without fear. When I prayed before games, I was able to just let it go. When I played in game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, I prayed more that day than I have my whole life. That was a day that I leaned on the Lord a lot. It helped me to face some of my fears. ~ Matt Cullen

If I'm moving too fast or coming on too hard... ~ N.D. Jones

I wouldnae refuse a square go, but I'd best warn ye, I'm solid." It ~ Darynda Jones

There comes a point when careful argumentation fails, a time when we are "casting pearls before swine." As Proverbs tells us: "Don't answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him" (Prov. 26:4). Reason is wasted. Other tools must come to play. And humor can penetrate deeply where arguments get clogged. Humor can shake us out of our own mental cave and force us to see our silliness from another person's angle. ~ Douglas M. Jones III

So lovers of life, don't keep your hopes up high.
Why? Cause it's just a matter of time before it's your turn to die.
But until then, when you stop breathin',
It's time to stand up and fight for what you believe in! ~ Kirk Jones

(The kiss) was soft and sensual, not the kind of spit-swap one would expect at a drunken frat party. ~ Adam W. Jones

Breath is critical to everything, to our relaxation, to our flexibility, to our mobility, to our strength and to our power. Knowing how to use our breath and tapping into this breath strength is critical for success as strength athletes. ~ Brett Jones

Tony Swan, Jorge Sanchez, Calvin Franz, Frances Neagley, Stanley Lowrey, Manuel Orozco, David O'Donnell, and Karla Dixon. ~ Lee Child

Don't ever buy Monks Fishing, Stanley. ~ James A. Michener

It was strange how closely we returnees clung together. We were like a family of orphaned children, split by an epidemic and sent to different care centers. That feeling of an epidemic disease persisted. The people treated us nicely, and cared for us tenderly, and then hurried to wash their hands after touching us. We were somehow unclean. We were tainted. And we ourselves accepted this. We felt it too ourselves. We understood why the civilian people preferred not to look at our injuries. ~ James Jones

The more perfect the instrument as a measurer of time, the more completely does it conceal time's arrow. ~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend's grave. ~ James Jones

What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed. ~ William Stanley Jevons