top of page
Quote_1.png
E. Stanley Jones

"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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

Exlpore more Intelligence quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!"

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The Knowledgeable has the intelligent answer but only the intelligent one asks for a knowledgeable question."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Education is no substitute for intelligence."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Intelligence is a moral category."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence."

Explore more quotes by E. Stanley Jones

Quote_1.png
E. Stanley Jones
"To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe."
Quote_1.png
E. Stanley Jones
"If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be."
Quote_1.png
E. Stanley Jones
"Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God."
Quote_1.png
E. Stanley Jones
"The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions."
Quote_1.png
E. Stanley Jones
"Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character."
Quote_1.png
E. Stanley Jones
"Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus."
Quote_1.png
E. Stanley Jones
"We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins."
Quote_1.png
E. Stanley Jones
"Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes."
Quote_1.png
E. Stanley Jones
"When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian."
Quote_1.png
E. Stanley Jones
"Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian."
bottom of page