Quotes by E. Stanley Jones
E. Stanley Jones (1884–1973) — Missionar · Methodistisch · USA
Eli Stanley Jones (1884–1973) war ein US-amerikanischer methodistischer Theologe, Missionar und Autor, der den Großteil seines Lebens in Indien wirkte. Bekannt wurde er durch die christliche Ashram-Bewegung sowie seinen Ansatz, das Evangelium von westlich-kolonialen Prägungen zu lösen, weshalb ihm theologische Kritiker Synkretismus vorwarfen. Für heutige Bibelleser steht sein Werk für eine christuszentrierte Spiritualität, die persönliche Nachfolge mit sozialer Verantwortung, Dialog und Gewaltfreiheit verbindet.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Prayer & Silence, Guidance & God's Will, Suffering & the Question of God, The Bible & the Word of God, Hope & Confidence, Courage & Strength, Discipleship, Witness & Mission
Quotes by E. Stanley Jones
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.
E. Stanley Jones
Don’t bear trouble, use it. Take whatever happens – justice and injustice, pleasure and pain, compliment and criticism – take it up into the purpose of your life and make something out of it. Turn it into testimony. Don’t explain evil, exploit evil; make it serve you. Just as the Lotus flower reaches down and takes up the mud and mire into the purposes of its life and produces the lotus flower out of them, so you are to take whatever happens and make something out of it.
E. Stanley Jones
The Word must become flesh in us before it can become power through us.
E. Stanley Jones
The infallibility of the Bible consists in this: if anyone sets out to follow the way of Jesus, he will infallibly find God.
E. Stanley Jones
Don't ask for tasks equal to your abilities; ask for abilities equal to your tasks.
E. Stanley Jones
Your ability to say no determines your ability to say yes to greater things.
E. Stanley Jones
This dark problem of unmerited suffering lights up as we see what happened at the cross. Jesus did not bear the Cross – He used it. The Cross was sin, and He turned it into the healing of sin; the Cross was hate, and He turned it into a manifestation of the love of God. The Cross showed man at his worst, and there Jesus shows God at His redemptive best. The cruelest, darkest word that life ever spoke was at the Cross, and Jesus took all that cruelty and darkness and turned it into pure love and pure light… What a light it sheds upon the tragedy of life to find such a fact at the center of our faith.
E. Stanley Jones
Sources: academicworks.com, cambridge.org, logos.com, wikipedia.org
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