143 Quotes by John R.W. Stott

"The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve."

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

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"Good works are indispensable to salvation – not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence."

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"Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable."

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"God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be."

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"It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible."

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"Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony."

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"Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems."

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"We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches."

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"Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience."

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