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...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.

John Stott

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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
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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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For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
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We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.
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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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Every Christian should be both conservative and radical conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
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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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There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
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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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We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
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A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.
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Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.
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Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
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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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The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
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Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
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Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.
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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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Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
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Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
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