Quotes from E. Stanley Jones

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

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.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

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.

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.

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

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

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.

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