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
Everybody who belongs to Christ belongs to everybody who belongs to Christ
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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.
I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?
If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you
Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.
When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?
When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ