Quotes from E. Stanley Jones

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

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.

The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.

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

If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.

I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.

Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

The universe does not make sense without God.

Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.

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

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you

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

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

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

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.

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

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.

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.