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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
Anglican Priest
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John Robert Walmsley Stott
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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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It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
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The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.
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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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Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.
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The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
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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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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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