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E. Stanley Jones

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


— 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.


— E. Stanley Jones


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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.


— E. Stanley Jones


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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


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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


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


— 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.


— E. Stanley Jones


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About E. Stanley Jones






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In March and July 2010 Summerside Press publiE. Stanley Jonesd Victorious Living and Abundant Living in a new "ESJ Devotional Series" edited and expanded by Dean Merrill. : Gandhi – Portrayal of a Friend (Abingdon 1993)
The Way to Power and Poise (1949) (devotional)
How to be a Transformed Person (1951) (devotional)
Growing Spiritually (1953) (devotional)
Mastery (1953) (devotional)
Christian Maturity (1957) (devotional)
Conversion (1959)
In Christ (1961) (devotional)
The Word Became Flesh (1963) (devotional)
Victory Through Surrender (1966)
Song of Ascents (1968) (autobiography)
The Unshakable Kingdom and the Unchanging Person (1972)
The Reconstruction of the Church – On what Pattern? (1970)
The Divine Yes (1975) (posthumously)
In 2009 Lucknow Publishing publiE. Stanley Jonesd Living Upon The Way a 15 hour audio series of selected sermons. This effort to contextualize Christianity for India was the subject of his seminal work The Christ of the Indian Road (ISBN 0-687-06377-9) which sold more than 1 million copies worldwide after its publication in 1925.

According to his and other contemporary reports his friendship for the cause of Indian self-determination allowed him to become friends with leaders of the up-and-coming Indian National Congress party. He spent much time with Mahatma Gandhi and the Nehru family. This effort to contextualize Christianity for India was the subject of his seminal work The Christ of the Indian Road (ISBN 0-687-06377-9) which sold more than 1 million copies worldwide after its publication in 1925.

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