#in

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

— E. Stanley Jones

#born #christian #christian home #does #home

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

#continuing #creation #exercise #faculties #given

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

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#go #grandfather #i #inspired #me

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

#certain #certain things #co-operate #co-operation #commitment

You learn more when things go wrong. ↗

— David E. Kelley

#learn #more #things #wrong #you

Nothing can justify war. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#nothing #war

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#feel #government #i #i feel #kind

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

#alike #character #christ #depend #depths

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

#adequate #carries #consistent #does #flaw