E. Stanley Jones
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.Collection: Power
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.Collection: Easter
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.Collection: Religion
We grow small trying to be great.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Intelligence
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.Collection: Intelligence
At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.Collection: God
When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.Collection: Men
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!”Collection: Christian
Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Peace
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.Collection: Two
When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.Collection: Spiritual
You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.Collection: Growing
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 ChristCollection: Ideas
When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.Collection: Believe
If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.Collection: Christian
Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.Collection: Inspirational
The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.Collection: Responsibility
The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.Collection: God Love
The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live itCollection: Christian
Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.Collection: Jesus
If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Soul
The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total beingCollection: Mind
To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!Collection: Waiting
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Jesus
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.Collection: Mind
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!Collection: Friday
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.Collection: Adequacy
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.Collection: Christian
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.Collection: Self
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.Collection: Jesus
Be victorious in the home, and you are victorious everywhere.Collection: Home
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.Collection: Christian
A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.Collection: Christ
Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.Collection: Sin
If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day.Collection: Ifs
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.Collection: Children
I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.Collection: Surrender
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.Collection: Way
When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.Collection: Praying
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.Collection: Church
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, 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.Collection: Jesus
We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.Collection: Prayer
An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.Collection: Men
Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'Collection: Grace
I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?Collection: Letting Go