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John Stott Inspirational Quotes (86)

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A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.
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The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the world. For the new community of Jesus Christ is characterized not by a self-centered triumphalism but by a God-centered worship.
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The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
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The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
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Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
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The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.
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Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet they cannot live together in harmony
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Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him that one day we must give an account. We should not therefore rate human opinion too highly.
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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
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The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.
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The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
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Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.
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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.
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The law requires works of human achievement the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.
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It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
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In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?
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Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.
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Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
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Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.
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