Famous Quotes

"Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation."

E. Stanley Jones on Easter

More quotes about Easter

• "A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Easter

• "God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'"

  Billy Graham on Easter

• "We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine."

  Dwight L. Moody on Easter

• "Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."

  Pope John Paul II on Easter

• "The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake."

  Basil Hume on Easter

More quotes by E. Stanley Jones

• "Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes."

• "At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption."

• "Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention."

• "Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian."

• "Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention."