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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
Writer
London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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Impossible
Christian
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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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A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.
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We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.
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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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We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
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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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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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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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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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...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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The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
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An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.
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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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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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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.
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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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