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

#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

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

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

#grappling #high #limited #make #making

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

— E. Stanley Jones

#depths #holy #holy spirit #reaction #spirit

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#again #enables #make #mistake #recognize

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#criticism #friend #hard #honest #particularly

Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there. ↗