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 think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.
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!”
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
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.
If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.
The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.
The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it
A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.
The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being
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
When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
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.