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The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

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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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Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
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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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Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
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Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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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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We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.
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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 reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
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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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Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins it is itself the essence of all sin.
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We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.
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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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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 law requires works of human achievement the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.
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It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
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A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.
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It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
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God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
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If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
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