"Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence."
-E. Stanley Jones
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"Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.“
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"Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption."
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