John Stott - Love Quotes

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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'

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Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.

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Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

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The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.

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Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.

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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.

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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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God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

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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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If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is
suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A
willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.

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