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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
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Missionary
Theologian
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
Cousin
Contentment
Simplicity
Firsts
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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
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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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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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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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The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
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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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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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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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Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.
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