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About E. Stanley Jones
Eli Stanley Jones (1884–1973) was a 20th-century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian. He is remembered chiefly for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India, thousands of which were held across the Indian subcontinent during the first decades of the 20th century.
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“He [ Krishnamurti ] has received divine honors in India and in the West. I had a long interview with him, found him of average intelligence, of rather lovable disposition, of mediocre spiritual intuitions, and heard him swear in good, round English! I came away feeling that if he is all we, as a race, have to look to in order to get out of the muddle we are in, then God pity us.”
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E. Stanley Jones on Religion
“There are a hundred and fifty or more definitions of religion. One says it is “what we do with our solitariness”; another that it is “how we integrate ourselves socially”; another that “the root of religion is fear,” and so on. The reason it is so difficult to define is that life itself is difficult to define. When we define religion in terms of its various manifestations, we get partial, sometimes contradictory definitions. But religion, having many forms, has only one root. That root is the urge after life, fuller life. In everything, from the lowest cell clear up to the highest person, there is an urge toward completion. We are all incurably religious. Even the Communists, though repudiating religion, are deeply religious. They want a better social order. They may be right or wrong in their method of getting it, but the very desire for a better social order is religious. For religion is a cry for life.”
About E. Stanley Jones
Eli Stanley Jones (1884–1973) was a 20th-century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian. He is remembered chiefly for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India, thousands of which were held across the Indian subcontinent during the first decades of the 20th century.