E. Stanley Jones
E. Stanley Jones
Eli Stanley Joneswas a 20th-century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian. He is remembered chiefly for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India, thousands of which were held across the Indian subcontinent during the first decades of the 20th century. According to his and other contemporary reports, his friendship for the cause of Indian self-determination allowed him to become a friend of leaders of the up-and-coming Indian National Congress party. He spent much time with Mohandas K. Gandhi, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
CountryUnited States of America
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?
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.
Whatever we focus on determines what we become.
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.
We grow small trying to be great.
If we know how to pray, we know how to live.