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.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption... view

By: E. Stanley Jones

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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... view

By: E. Stanley Jones

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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... view

By: E. Stanley Jones

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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... view

By: E. Stanley Jones

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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... view

By: E. Stanley Jones

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

By: E. Stanley Jones

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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God... view

By: E. Stanley Jones

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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy... view

By: E. Stanley Jones

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

By: E. Stanley Jones

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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... view

By: E. Stanley Jones

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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this... view

By: E. Stanley Jones

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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... view

By: E. Stanley Jones

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