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Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

John Stott

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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
Anglican Priest
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Missionary
Theologian
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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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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The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
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The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
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The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.
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Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins it is itself the essence of all sin.
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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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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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Truth without love is too hard love without truth is too soft.
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Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.
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God does not love us because Christ died for us Christ died for us because God loved us.
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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.
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Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
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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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The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.
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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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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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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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Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
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