E. Stanley Jones
E. Stanley Jones
Eli Stanley Joneswas a 20th-century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian. He is remembered chiefly for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India, thousands of which were held across the Indian subcontinent during the first decades of the 20th century. According to his and other contemporary reports, his friendship for the cause of Indian self-determination allowed him to become a friend of leaders of the up-and-coming Indian National Congress party. He spent much time with Mohandas K. Gandhi, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
CountryUnited States of America
Everybody who belongs to Christ belongs to everybody who belongs to Christ
I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?
Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you
Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.
When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.
A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.
Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.
When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.