Quotes from E. Stanley Jones

When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

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.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

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

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

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

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.

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

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.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

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.

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

To live by worry is to live against reality

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.

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

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.

Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.

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.

The Sermon on the Mount seems dangerous. It challenges the whole underlying conception on which modern society is built. It would replace it by a new conception, animate it with a new motive, and turn it toward a new goal.

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