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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.
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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There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.
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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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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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Every Christian should be both conservative and radical conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
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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.
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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
John Stott
In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?
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God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
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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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Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins it is itself the essence of all sin.
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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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Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.
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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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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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Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
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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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