Quotes from E. Stanley Jones

How has God faded out of the mind of this age? Well, the age, like thoughtless children, believed that the toyland of material wealth was a sufficient world; then God faded out, smothered by preoccupation.

Happiness doesn't come to you; you join happiness on the way to doing something for others.

We are not quite sure that the Sermon on the Mount is the Sermon for the mart. We are not sure, and an unsure place is an unsafe place* We must go on or go back. We must be more Christian or less.

If there were no God, we would have to invent one to keep people sane."*

Around the world the problem of Christian work is the problem of the Christian worker.

Seeley was right when he said that "moral deterioration is bound to set in in any subject race.

Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.

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!

We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.

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.

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.

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 God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

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

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.

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.

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.

There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

We grow small trying to be great.

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.

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

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.