Author: E. Stanley Jones

Quotes

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

- E. Stanley Jones

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

- E. Stanley Jones

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.

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.

- 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.

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

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

- E. Stanley Jones

We grow small trying to be great.

We grow small trying to be great.

- 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.

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

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

- 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.

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

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