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 the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.
Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.
If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you
Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it
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!”
If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.
Surrender the thing you fear into the hands of God. Turn it right over to God and ask Him to solve it with you. Fear is keeping things in your own hands; faith is turning them over into the hands of God.
Everybody who belongs to Christ belongs to everybody who belongs to Christ
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!