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God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.

John Stott

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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
Anglican Priest
Author
Missionary
Theologian
Writer
London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
Creation
Care
Love
Intends
Reflect
Creator

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...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.
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We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.
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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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Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
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Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
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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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Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.
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Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
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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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What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
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If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
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So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins (in his death), then conquer death (in his resurrection) and then enter his people (by his Spirit), he is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has his qualifications.
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At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
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All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.
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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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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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Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.
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