Top 90 E. Stanley Jones Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.”

— E. Stanley Jones

52. “We grow small trying to be great.”

— E. Stanley Jones

53. “In the pure, strong hours of the morning, when the soul of the day is at its best, lean upon the window sill of God and look into his face, and get the orders for the day. Then go out into the day with the sense of a hand upon your shoulder and not a chip.”

— E. Stanley Jones

54. “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.”

— E. Stanley Jones

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

— E. Stanley Jones

56. “If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.”

— E. Stanley Jones

57. “A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.”

— E. Stanley Jones

58. “The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being.”

— E. Stanley Jones

59. “When the Christian doesn’t find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.”

— E. Stanley Jones

60. “The universe does not make sense without God.”

— E. Stanley Jones

61. “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.”

— E. Stanley Jones

62. “The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same – that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.”

— E. Stanley Jones

63. “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

64. “No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.”

— E. Stanley Jones

65. “The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.”

— E. Stanley Jones

66. “We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.”

— E. Stanley Jones

67. “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.”

— E. Stanley Jones

68. “When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.”

— E. Stanley Jones

69. “Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give.”

— E. Stanley Jones

70. “When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.”

— E. Stanley Jones

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

— E. Stanley Jones

72. “A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.”

— E. Stanley Jones

73. “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.”

— E. Stanley Jones

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

— E. Stanley Jones

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

— E. Stanley Jones

76. “Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.”

— E. Stanley Jones

77. “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.”

— E. Stanley Jones

78. “We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom – the Kingdom belongs to us.”

— E. Stanley Jones

79. “The Sermon on the Mount seems dangerous. It challenges the whole underlying conception on which modern society is built. It would replace it by a new conception, animate it with a new motive, and turn it toward a new goal.”

— E. Stanley Jones

80. “Very often when I haven’t faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can’t. I have to rise to His faith in me.”

— E. Stanley Jones

81. “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

82. “A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.”

— E. Stanley Jones

83. “Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven’t room for ill will.”

— E. Stanley Jones

84. “The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.”

— E. Stanley Jones

85. “I have only to be true to the highest I know-success of failure is in the hand of God.”

— E. Stanley Jones

86. “Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.”

— E. Stanley Jones

87. “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.”

— E. Stanley Jones

88. “Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.”

— E. Stanley Jones

89. “Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?”

— E. Stanley Jones

90. “Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.”

— E. Stanley Jones

91. “When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.”

— E. Stanley Jones

92. “Be victorious in the home, and you are victorious everywhere.”

— E. Stanley Jones

93. “Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.”

— E. Stanley Jones

94. “If we know how to pray, we know how to live.”

— E. Stanley Jones