E. Stanley Jones Quotes


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. - E. Stanley Jones


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. - E. Stanley Jones


When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian. - E. Stanley Jones


Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. - E. Stanley Jones


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. - E. Stanley Jones


Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. - 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. - E. Stanley Jones


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. - E. Stanley Jones


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. - E. Stanley Jones


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