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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
Commandments
Respond
Speaks
Glorious
Determine
Greatness
Worship
Humbling
Speak
Obey

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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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The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
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Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
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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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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins it is itself the essence of all sin.
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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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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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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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We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.
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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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I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God’s voice is heard and His people obey Him
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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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