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From Quotes by John Stott
- We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its…
- Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people…
- Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of…
- Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual…
- No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.
- 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…
- To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of…
- Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear…
- What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
- The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
- The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.
- [Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself…
- To evangelize is to spread the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead according to the Scriptures,…
- We preachers cannot expect to communicate verbally from the pulpit if we visually out of it contradict ourselves.
- All around us we see Christians and churches relaxing their grasp on the gospel, fumbling it, and in danger of letting it drop from their…
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