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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

#character #christ #code #hence #human

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#freedom #freedom from #living #mean #mistakes

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#aligning #god #ourselves #prayer #purposes

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#down #god #means #out #prayer

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

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The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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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