E. Stanley Jones

Quotes

• “The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning th...”
• “Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God ha...”
• “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 my...”
• “The Sermon on the Mount seems dangerous. It challenges the whole underlying conception on which modern society is built....”
• “Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world....”
• “Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the...”
• “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 a...”
• “Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a m...”
• “Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.”
• “Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.”
• “To live by worry is to live against reality”
• “Fear is sand in the machinery of life.”
• “We grow small trying to be great.”