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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.”
― John Stott

“When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.”
― N.T. Wright

“Discernment is first of all a habit, a way of seeing that eventually permeates our whole life. It is the journey from spiritual blindness (not seeing God anywhere or seeing him only where we expect to see him) to spiritual sight (finding God everywhere, especially where we least expect it).”
― Ruth Haley Barton, Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation

“Had I glimpsed just a little of the suffering I would witness and the heartbreak I would endure, I would have fled in the other direction...But I could not foresee any of these things...And many years later, with tears in my eyes, I remembered my decision to follow this God no matter what the cost.”
― Daniel Walker, God in a Brothel: An Undercover Journey into Sex Trafficking and Rescue

“What we have to share with others is neither a miscellany of human speculations, nor one more religion to add to the rest, nor really a religion at all. It is rather ‘the gospel of God,’ God’s own good news for a lost world.”
― John R.W. Stott, Reading Romans with John Stott, Volume 1

“We are not under law as a way of salvation but as a guide to conduct. ”
― John R.W. Stott, Reading Timothy and Titus with John Stott: 13 Weeks for Individuals or Groups

“The essence of discipleship is union with Christ, which means identification with him in both his sufferings and his glory.”
― John R.W. Stott, Reading Romans with John Stott, Volume 1

“Living in the kingdom of God is a matter of living with God's action in our lives.”
― Dallas Willard, Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God

“We are to be like Christ in his incarnation.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Radical Disciple: Some Neglected Aspects of Our Calling

“In God’s providence we have four gospels! For Jesus Christ is too great and glorious a person to be captured by one author or one perspective.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Incomparable Christ

“Souls are won for Christ by tears and sweat and pain, especially in prayer and in sacrificial personal friendship.”
― John R.W. Stott, Reading Timothy and Titus with John Stott: 13 Weeks for Individuals or Groups

“Much of our effort to do things for the Lord is really the resurgence of our desire to dominate and make things happen in our own strength.”
― Dallas Willard, Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23

“Just as Jesus performed what in his culture was the work of a slave, so we in our cultures must regard no task too menial or degrading to undertake.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Radical Disciple: Some Neglected Aspects of Our Calling

“Only if we share Christ's death on earth will we share his life in heaven.”
― John R.W. Stott, Reading Timothy and Titus with John Stott: 13 Weeks for Individuals or Groups

“Habits form much more than our schedules: they form our hearts.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction