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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.

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
Respond
Speaks
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Greatness
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Humbling
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Commandments

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The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
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The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
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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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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
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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 Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.
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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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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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A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.
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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
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Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.
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