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E. Stanley Jones

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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.


— E. Stanley Jones


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


— E. Stanley Jones


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


— E. Stanley Jones


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


— E. Stanley Jones


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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.


— E. Stanley Jones


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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.


— E. Stanley Jones


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


— E. Stanley Jones


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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.


— E. Stanley Jones


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


— E. Stanley Jones


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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.


— E. Stanley Jones


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About E. Stanley Jones






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In March and July 2010 Summerside Press publiE. Stanley Jonesd Victorious Living and Abundant Living in a new "ESJ Devotional Series" edited and expanded by Dean Merrill. : Gandhi – Portrayal of a Friend (Abingdon 1993)
The Way to Power and Poise (1949) (devotional)
How to be a Transformed Person (1951) (devotional)
Growing Spiritually (1953) (devotional)
Mastery (1953) (devotional)
Christian Maturity (1957) (devotional)
Conversion (1959)
In Christ (1961) (devotional)
The Word Became Flesh (1963) (devotional)
Victory Through Surrender (1966)
Song of Ascents (1968) (autobiography)
The Unshakable Kingdom and the Unchanging Person (1972)
The Reconstruction of the Church – On what Pattern? (1970)
The Divine Yes (1975) (posthumously)
In 2009 Lucknow Publishing publiE. Stanley Jonesd Living Upon The Way a 15 hour audio series of selected sermons. This effort to contextualize Christianity for India was the subject of his seminal work The Christ of the Indian Road (ISBN 0-687-06377-9) which sold more than 1 million copies worldwide after its publication in 1925.

According to his and other contemporary reports his friendship for the cause of Indian self-determination allowed him to become friends with leaders of the up-and-coming Indian National Congress party. He spent much time with Mahatma Gandhi and the Nehru family. This effort to contextualize Christianity for India was the subject of his seminal work The Christ of the Indian Road (ISBN 0-687-06377-9) which sold more than 1 million copies worldwide after its publication in 1925.

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