#us

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

Nothing can justify war. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#nothing #war

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

— E. Stanley Jones

#before #character #creed #jesus #our

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

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

#conscious #conscious mind #determines #important #just

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

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#care #children #day #how #husband

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#because #been #child #ever #express

There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#africa #artist #bunch #dancers #film