“If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.” IfsMindMake Up Your Mind Author:E. Stanley Jones
“If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.” IfsSpiritCan DoOur LivesOughtHolyBasesHoly SpiritCooperationAlmightySubconsciousConsent Author:E. Stanley Jones
“A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.” IfsThinkingHatePeaceAngryOneselfDeeperHarmSpiteBitesResentmentUbuntuBitingPeace JusticeCorneredRattlesnakesHarming Others Author:E. Stanley Jones
“While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. Nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake. The yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery.” IfsWorldLoveMayHardDoneLightEasyDifferencesLove IsImpossibleSweetDutyBirdTasksWingsTrue LoveSakeBurdenDrivenShipsLoadSailYokeDrudgery Author:E. Stanley Jones
“To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.” IfsTryingMindChildrenFearParentCrimeImplants Author:E. Stanley Jones
“If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.” IfsChristianReligionChristPrayerChaosSurrender Author:E. Stanley Jones
“Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.” IfsPrayerSurrenderGods WillBoatShoreCooperationPullingEnder Author:E. Stanley Jones
“If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day.” Ifs Author:E. Stanley Jones
“If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.” IfsThinkingSurrenderSurrender To God Author:E. Stanley Jones
“If we know how to pray, we know how to live.” IfsKnowsKnow HowPraying Book:HOW TO PRAY Source: HOW TO PRAY
“No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.” IfsPersonsSelfFreedomLetting GoGainsAskingConstantSurpriseSheerDisillusioned Author:E. Stanley Jones
“Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.” IfsEndsCareTakenAliveSavedDevotionDedicatedSurprising Author:E. Stanley Jones
