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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
Author
Missionary
Theologian
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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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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There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.
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We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.
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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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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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Every Christian should be both conservative and radical conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
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Truth without love is too hard love without truth is too soft.
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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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Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.
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Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
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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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There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
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A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.
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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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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
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We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.
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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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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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Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
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Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
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