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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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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
Anglican Priest
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England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.
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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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...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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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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Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins it is itself the essence of all sin.
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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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Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
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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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In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?
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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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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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We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
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