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All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.

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
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Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.
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Truth without love is too hard love without truth is too soft.
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God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
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The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.
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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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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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We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
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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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The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
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God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
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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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We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.
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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet they cannot live together in harmony
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