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E. Stanley Jones

American Theologian

Born: 1894

Died: 1973

Action Character Christ God Prayer You

Related authors: Ernest Holmes Howard Thurman Huston Smith John Gresham Machen Mary Baker Eddy Mary Daly Reinhold Niebuhr Tryon Edwards

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. E. Stanley Jones

Freedom Mistakes Living Temptation Freedom From Does Nor Mean Victorious

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. E. Stanley Jones

Mind Important Determines Unconscious Unconscious Mind Reactions Just Actions Conscious Conscious Mind

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. E. Stanley Jones

Intelligence Our Results Intentions Actions

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. E. Stanley Jones

Life Character Christ Think Add Virtue Ideal Longer Supreme Stood Human Human Life Standard Code Hence Thing Jesus Jesus Christ

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption. E. Stanley Jones

God Heart Our Wrapped Cross Nailed Redemption His Blood Flesh

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. E. Stanley Jones

Love God Nature Impossible Incredible Our Way Must Cross He Redeem Reveal His Loved Urge To Love Us Deepest Portion

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things. E. Stanley Jones

You Action Other Attached Primarily Institution Nor Person Movement Order Conversion Beliefs Code Things Set

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. E. Stanley Jones

God Religion Prayer Ourselves Purposes

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. E. Stanley Jones

Best Will Mistakes Too High Obviously Make Limited Making Sins Very Personalities Us Grappling Many Things Need

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. E. Stanley Jones

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. E. Stanley Jones

You Stream Parents First Birth Tells Give Through He New First Of All Blood Get Cannot Us Much Your Here Heredity

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. E. Stanley Jones

Character Christ Giving Power First Depend Alike Foe Would Some Given Self Redeemer Said Question Friend Depths Richness Agreed Things Jesus Second Jesus Christ Two

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