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John Robert Walmsley Stott CBE (27 April 1921 – 27 July 2011) was an English Anglican priest who was noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. In 2005, Time magazine ranked Stott among the 100 most influential people in the world.

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The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.

Discover, People, Reaching, Trying

God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

God, Knowing, Scripture, Thoughts, Way

[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 against the social injustices which insult God the Creator, seeks to protect human beings from oppression and longs to liberate them… it protests against every authoritarian regime, whether of the left or of the right, which discriminates against minorities, denies people their civil rights, forbids the free expression of opinions or imprisons people for their views alone.

Christian, Denies, Expression, Left, Social, Views

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 judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

Complacency, Echoes, Haughty, Mind, Repent, Scripture

. . . 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.

Mystical Experiences, People, Firsts, Mystical, Private

Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never be modest. There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. How can we ever be content that he should acquire just a little more honour in the world? No. Once we are clear that God is King, then we long to see him crowned with glory and honour, and accorded his true place, which is the supreme place. We become ambitious for the spread of his kingdom and righteousness everywhere.

Ambition, Ambitions, Ambitious, Kings, Modest, Self

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.

Bending, God, Imposing, Prayer, Way

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.

Cutting, Death, Debt, Gay, Sin, Suffering

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

Christian, Christians, Clueless, Enlightenment, Jargon

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.

Waiting, Church, Needs, Left, Spirit, Come

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.

Christian, Confidence, Father, Freedom, Trouble, Worry

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Faith, Thoughtfully, Trust, Trust In God, Trustworthiness

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.

Christian, Development, Enemy, Humility, Pride, Step

Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.

Christ, Deserved, God, Inflicting, Judgment

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

Church, Disobedience, Inactivity, Order, Orders

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

Christian, Conservative, Faith, Radical, Should

. . . what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context

Believe, Biblical, Bridges, Building, Namely, Relating

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.

Allows, Choices, Dare, Earth, Giving, Heaven

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.

Inspirational, Necessary, Repetition, Success, Tradition, Uplifting

All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.

Intelligent, Loving, Names, Response, Worship

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