E. Stanley Jones
E. Stanley Jones
Eli Stanley Joneswas a 20th-century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian. He is remembered chiefly for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India, thousands of which were held across the Indian subcontinent during the first decades of the 20th century. According to his and other contemporary reports, his friendship for the cause of Indian self-determination allowed him to become a friend of leaders of the up-and-coming Indian National Congress party. He spent much time with Mohandas K. Gandhi, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
CountryUnited States of America
Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.
Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give.
A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.
When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.
Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.
We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.
God doesn't have any grandchildren.
I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?
We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.
To live by worry is to live against reality
When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
Grace binds you with far stronger cords than the cords of duty or obligation can bind you. Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver. Like produces like. Grace makes you gracious, the Giver makes you give.
I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely - these are my native air.
A Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact.' But I, who am simple of mind, think I know we are inwardly constructed, in nerve and tissue and brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. Therefore, the need of faith is not something imposed on us dogmatically, but it is written in us intrinsically. We cannot live without it. To live by worry is to live against Reality.