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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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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

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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

#being #commission #compulsion #divine #feel

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. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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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

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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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Originality is the art of concealing your source. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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