When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.
E. Stanley JonesSuppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
E. Stanley JonesWe are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
E. Stanley JonesWe must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.
E. Stanley JonesVictorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley JonesA Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact.' But I, who am simple of mind, think I know we are inwardly constructed, in nerve and tissue and brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. Therefore, the need of faith is not something imposed on us dogmatically, but it is written in us intrinsically. We cannot live without it. To live by worry is to live against Reality.
E. Stanley Jones