“Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.” SpiritualPurposeInwardFellowshipAbandonmentSpiritual PowerFellowship With God Author:E. Stanley Jones
“In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.” SpiritualLife IsLostPrayerBattleSpiritual LifePrayer Time Book:HOW TO PRAY Source: HOW TO PRAY
“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.” WorldFeelsSpiritualTurnsPrayerDivinePrayingMachineryCompulsionQuietness Author:E. Stanley Jones
“The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.” HeartSpiritualLevelsHigherWeaponsConscienceStrikesOpponentsCheeksOffensiveHigher LevelAudacityTurn The Other Cheek Author:E. Stanley Jones
“In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to a appear better than we really are.” PeopleNeedsGivingFirstsHeartCountrySpiritualDesireHoursChurchMorningFiveFourMembersOrdinaryFirst TimeCrossesWestEastHonestlyReactionsSectionsRetreatGraciousOpen HeartRespectabilityCatharsisEast And WestChurch Life Author:E. Stanley Jones
“When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.” SpiritualPrayerFadesPrayerful Author:E. Stanley Jones
