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There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
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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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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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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The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
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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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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins (in his death), then conquer death (in his resurrection) and then enter his people (by his Spirit), he is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has his qualifications.
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Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.
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All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
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It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.
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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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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'
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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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Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
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It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
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