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It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

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
Scripture
Impossible
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Without
Life
Exaggeration

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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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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.
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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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The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
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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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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?
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The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
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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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There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.
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It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.
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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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Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
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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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For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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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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