Top 90 E. Stanley Jones Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!”

— E. Stanley Jones

2. “Whatever we focus on determines what we become.”

— E. Stanley Jones

3. “Your capacity to say “No” determines your capacity to say “Yes” to greater things.”

— E. Stanley Jones

4. “Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you.”

— E. Stanley Jones

5. “If you don’t make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.”

— E. Stanley Jones

6. “Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.”

— E. Stanley Jones

7. “If you don’t surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.”

— E. Stanley Jones

8. “I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.”

— E. Stanley Jones

9. “When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.”

— E. Stanley Jones

10. “Abundant living means abundant giving.”

— E. Stanley Jones

11. “Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.”

— E. Stanley Jones

12. “Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.”

— E. Stanley Jones

13. “In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.”

— E. Stanley Jones

14. “God doesn’t have any grandchildren.”

— E. Stanley Jones

15. “If you don’t surrender to God, don’t think you don’t surrender. Everybody surrenders – to something.”

— E. Stanley Jones

16. “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.”

— E. Stanley Jones

17. “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.”

— E. Stanley Jones

18. “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

19. “Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that ‘much more.’”

— E. Stanley Jones

20. “A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is – a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.”

— E. Stanley Jones

21. “The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.”

— E. Stanley Jones

22. “When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.”

— E. Stanley Jones

23. “When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.”

— E. Stanley Jones

24. “The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.”

— E. Stanley Jones

25. “When Satan attacks you, command him in the Name of Jesus to bend his neck. On the back of it you’ll find there’s a nail scarred foot print!”

— E. Stanley Jones

26. “There are two ways to be rich – one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.”

— E. Stanley Jones

27. “Earth’s blackest day and earth’s brightest day are only three days apart.”

— E. Stanley Jones

28. “The one supreme business of life is to find God’s plan for your life and live it.”

— E. Stanley Jones

29. “To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.”

— E. Stanley Jones

30. “When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.”

— E. Stanley Jones

31. “Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.”

— E. Stanley Jones

32. “Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.”

— E. Stanley Jones

33. “I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?”

— E. Stanley Jones

34. “Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.”

— E. Stanley Jones

35. “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.”

— E. Stanley Jones

36. “We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.”

— E. Stanley Jones

37. “Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.”

— E. Stanley Jones

38. “If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day.”

— E. Stanley Jones

39. “Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.”

— E. Stanley Jones

40. “An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.”

— E. Stanley Jones

41. “The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them – we break ourselves upon them.”

— E. Stanley Jones

42. “Grace binds you with far stronger cords than the cords of duty or obligation can bind you. Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver. Like produces like. Grace makes you gracious, the Giver makes you give.”

— E. Stanley Jones

43. “The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.”

— E. Stanley Jones

44. “You don’t grow old. You get old by not growing.”

— E. Stanley Jones

45. “Everybody who belongs to Christ belongs to everybody who belongs to Christ.”

— E. Stanley Jones

46. “To live by worry is to live against reality.”

— E. Stanley Jones

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

— E. Stanley Jones

48. “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

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

— E. Stanley Jones

50. “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.”

— E. Stanley Jones