E. Stanley Jones

“Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.”

“Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.”

“Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.”

“In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.”

“Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.”

“At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.”

“Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.”

“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.”

“When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.”

“Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.”

“Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, 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.”

“In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.”

“If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.”