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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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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England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.
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Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
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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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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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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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Word and worship belong indissolubly to each other. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name. Therefore, acceptable worship is impossible without preaching. For preaching is making known the name of the Lord, and worship is praising the name of the Lord made known.
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God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
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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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The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
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Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.
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We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.
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