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Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

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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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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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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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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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
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Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.
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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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Every Christian should be both conservative and radical conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
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We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.
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Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.
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There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
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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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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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What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
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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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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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