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The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
John Stott
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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
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John Robert Walmsley Stott
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The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.
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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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Truth without love is too hard love without truth is too soft.
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Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.
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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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Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.
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The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
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Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
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The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the world. For the new community of Jesus Christ is characterized not by a self-centered triumphalism but by a God-centered worship.
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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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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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We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
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There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
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