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Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

John Stott

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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
Anglican Priest
Author
Missionary
Theologian
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
Cousin
Contentment
Simplicity
Firsts
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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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...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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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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The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
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Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.
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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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The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.
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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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Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
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Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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God does not love us because Christ died for us Christ died for us because God loved us.
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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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Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.
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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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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
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Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
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Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
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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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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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