Eli Stanley Jones quotes and words of wisdom

"A 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."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"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."
Found in the topic Church.

"Very often when I haven?t faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can?t. I have to rise to His faith in me. A woman who was inwardly collapsed said to me, "Well, I have no fai"
Found in the topic Death.

"I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath ? these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely ? these are my native air."
Found in the topic Faith.

Interesting Quotes

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.Mark Twain - US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.Carl Jung - Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)