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
When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.
Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.
Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give.
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.
When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.
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!
Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.
A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.
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.
In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.
I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.
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.
When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.
Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.