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Men Quotes by John Stott
- So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.
- 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…
- A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the…
- 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…
- Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and…
- No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.
- 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…
- The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to…
- No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky blackness of the…
- Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
- Universalism, fashionable as it is today, is incompatible with the teaching of Christ and His apostles, and is a deadly enemy of evangelism. The true…
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