Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion. - John Stott

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Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

John Stott

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

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Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.

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