Best quotes by E. Stanley Jones on God

Checkout quotes by E. Stanley Jones on God

• ‟ Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

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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.

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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.

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• ‟ Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

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• ‟ To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

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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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

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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