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Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

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
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.
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It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
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A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.
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Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
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Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
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