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A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.

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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
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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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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 concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.
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All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
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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.
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There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.
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Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
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Every Christian should be both conservative and radical conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
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It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.
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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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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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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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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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God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'
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The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ
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I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God’s voice is heard and His people obey Him
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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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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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