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
Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.
If we know how to pray, we know how to live.
The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.
An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.
We grow small trying to be great.
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.
Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.
An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.