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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

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
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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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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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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The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.
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There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
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There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.
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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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In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?
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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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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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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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We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
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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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For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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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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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
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Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.
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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 church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
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