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
We grow small trying to be great.
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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.
Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.
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.
Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
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.
Whatever we focus on determines what we become.
Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?
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.