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
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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.
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.
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
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
Whatever we focus on determines what we become.
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.