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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 Actions 213
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 God 90
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian. E. Stanley Jones Being 85
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 Altered 79
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. E. Stanley Jones Appear 76
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. E. Stanley Jones Being 71
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 Best 70
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 Action 69
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 Add 68
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. E. Stanley Jones Freedom 63
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 Antagonism 59
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 Power 58
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 Action 58
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 Cross 50
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 Begin 50
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. E. Stanley Jones Intelligence 48
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 Add 46
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy. E. Stanley Jones Adequacy 45
To live by worry is to live against reality E. Stanley Jones Worry 44
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. E. Stanley Jones Religion 43
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian. E. Stanley Jones Christian 36
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. E. Stanley Jones Admiration 35
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 Agreed 32
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 Intelligence 31
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 Easter 25

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