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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

Topics: Almighty Anything Anywhere Basis Consent Cooperation Go Holy Holy Spirit Lives Ought Our Our Lives Over Power Spirit Subconscious Take Then Working

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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

Topics: Action Attached Beliefs Code Conversion Institution Movement Nor Order Other Person Primarily Set Things 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.

~E. Stanley Jones

Topics: Begin Being Commission Compulsion Divine Feel God Machinery Out Power Pray Prayer Quietness Sense Sent Spiritual Turns World You

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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

Topics: Being Down God Means Out Prayer Praying Total Whole You Your

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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.

~E. Stanley Jones

Topics: Altered Basic Brother Conversion Fact Gives God Man Nature Pass Relationship Son Universe You Your Yourself

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

~E. Stanley Jones

Topics: Being Born Christian Does Home Make You

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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

Topics: Add Character Christ Code Hence Human Human Life Ideal Jesus Jesus Christ Life Longer Standard Stood Supreme Thing Think Virtue

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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.

~E. Stanley Jones

Topics: Co-Operation Continuing Creation Exercise Faculties Given God Had He Intentions Links Maker Mind Out Prayer Purest Series Us Work Work Out

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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

Topics: Cross Deepest God He His Impossible Incredible Love Loved Must Nature Our Portion Redeem Reveal To Love Urge Us Way

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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

~E. Stanley Jones

Topics: Adequacy Basic Life Supplied

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Theologian

Born: Unknown

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