When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.
E. Stanley JonesRead
An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Both individual and social aspects of faith are essential for a complete spiritual life.
E. Stanley Jones highlights the interdependence between personal faith and social responsibility, suggesting that true spirituality requires both an inner conviction and outward action. A faith that neglects social justice is incomplete, just as a focus solely on social issues without personal integrity lacks true life and purpose.
Themes
FaithSocial JusticeSpiritualityIndividualCommunity
In practice
Example use cases
In a sermon discussing the importance of social justice and personal faith.
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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.
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Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
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To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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