E. Stanley Jones Quotes
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
Jones, E. Stanley. The Way to Power and Poise. Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1949, p. 18.
Ironically, at the time the great worry was the ability to produce sufficient food for the whole world. Today, we find that task relatively easy, but we still have malnutrition and starvation on some parts of the world. Supply is only one factor. Distribution is as critical.
Eli Stanley Jones (1884–1973) was an American Methodist Christian missionary, theologian, and author. 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. He is sometimes considered the "Billy Graham of India." His seminal work, The Christ of the Indian Road, sold more than a million copies worldwide after its publication in 1925. As of 2018, three million copies of his books have been sold. He is the founder of the Christian Ashram movement. In 1938, Time called Jones "the world's greatest Christian missionary."