John Stott - Jesus Quotes

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The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the world. For the new community of Jesus Christ is characterized not by a self-centered triumphalism but by a God-centered worship.

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Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

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The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

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

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There is evidence for the deity of Jesus — good, strong, historical, cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.

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Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.

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Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.

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The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

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Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

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We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.

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When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

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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 penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.

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