E. Stanley Jones: The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look w...

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

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Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. 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

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When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

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You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.

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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!

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Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.

E. Stanley Jones

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

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Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

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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!

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Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.

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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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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

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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.

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

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The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

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The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it

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If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.

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The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

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The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being

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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!”