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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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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
Anglican Priest
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Missionary
Theologian
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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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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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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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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So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins (in his death), then conquer death (in his resurrection) and then enter his people (by his Spirit), he is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has his qualifications.
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Truth without love is too hard love without truth is too soft.
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Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
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A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.
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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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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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A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on
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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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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
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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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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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All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
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Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.
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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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Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.
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