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A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

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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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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
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We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
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Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
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We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.
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Truth without love is too hard love without truth is too soft.
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