E. Stanley Jones Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.”

“Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.”

“In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.”

“When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.”

“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.”

“You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.”