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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.

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
Writer
London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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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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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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Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
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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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Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him that one day we must give an account. We should not therefore rate human opinion too highly.
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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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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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God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
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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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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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Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.
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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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Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.
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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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The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
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An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.
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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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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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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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The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
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