[The Kingdom of God] is a complete totalitarianism in which, when you obey it totally, you find total freedom. I do not argue. I only testify: When I belong to Christ and his Kingdom, I am most my own.
— E. Stanley Jones, The Unshakable Kingdom and the Unchanging Person
The early disciples had little ritual but a mighty realization. They went out not remembering Christ, but experiencing him.
–E. Stanley Jones, The Christ of Experience
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
“Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.”
“We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.”
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
“Some prayers are like a fire escape, used only in times of critical emergency — never very enjoyable, but used as a way of terrified escape from disaster. They do not represent the regular life of the one who offers them; rather are the unusual and uncommon acts of the spiritual amateur.”
“Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.”
“Too many of our religious convictions are negative. We act not from a positive conviction that something is right, but from a feeling that the opposite is wrong.”