In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
E. Stanley JonesCharacter is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
E. Stanley JonesSuppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
E. Stanley JonesIn the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
E. Stanley Jones