Bound to a Weight of Glory
“If we claim to be Christian, we must be like Christ.”
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John Stott, The Radical Disciple
April 2012
17 posts
“It is not the man who hides himself in a cave, but the man who glorifies God as a master or servant, parent or child, in the family and in the street, in business and in trade, who is the Scriptural type of a sanctified man.”
—J.C. Ryle, Holiness
“We state and commend the faith only in so far as we go out and put ourselves inside the doubts of the doubters, the questions of the questioners and the loneliness of those who have lost their way.”
—Michael Ramsey, Image Old and New
“Christlikeness is the eternal predestinating purpose of God.”
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John Stott, The Radical Disciple
“[Christians] are not to be like chameleons, lizards that change their color according to their surroundings, but to stand out visibly against our surroundings.”
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John Stott, The Radical Disciple
“Unfortunately, some of this [New Age] teaching has permeated the church, with some Christians urging that we must not only love God and our neighbor, but we must also love ourselves. But no, this is surely a mistake for three reasons. First, Jesus spoke of “the first and great commandment” and of “the second,” but did not mention a third. Second, self-love is one of the signs of the last days (2 Timothy 3:2). Third, the meaning of agape love is the sacrifice of oneself in the service of others. Sacrificing oneself in the service of oneself is clearly nonsense!”
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John Stott, The Radical Disciple
“We may talk about Alexander the Great, Charles the Great and Napoleon the Great, but not Jesus the Great. He is not the Great—he is the Only. There is nobody like him. He has no rival and no successor.”
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John Stott, The Radical Disciple
“He who will not bow to the authority of grace will have to bow to the authority of righteousness and judgement.”
—Dick Lucas, Four Great Tests to Treasure - Psalm 110
“Life is a brief pilgrimage between two moments of nakedness. So we would be wise to travel light. We shall take nothing with us.”
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John Stott, The Radical Disciple
