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We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.

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
Soft
Faith
Strong
Love

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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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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'
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Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
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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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The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
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We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.
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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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Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
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God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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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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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
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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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We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
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Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
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We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
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The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.
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The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.
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Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.
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