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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.

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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