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

~E. Stanley Jones

Topics: Actions Intelligence Intentions Our Results

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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

Topics: Action Because Good Intelligence Intention Intentions Limited May Mistake Necessarily Our Out Sin Turn Very Wrong

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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

~E. Stanley Jones

Topics: God Ourselves Prayer Purposes

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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

Topics: Action Adequate Carries Consistent Does Flaw Frustration Guilt Living Many Mean Mistakes Perfect Sense Victorious Without

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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

Topics: Best High Limited Make Making Many Mistakes Need Obviously Personalities Sins Things Too Us Very Will

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

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Topics: Christian Depths Holy Holy Spirit Reaction Spirit Then Upheld

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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.

~E. Stanley Jones

Topics: Antagonism Away Begin Cease Give God Gracious Love Move Moved Others Outgoing Same Toward Up You Your Yourself

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Theologian

Born: Unknown

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