"We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior."

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Source : "John Stott: 10 Memorable Quotes" by Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. July 28, 2011.

John Stott

#Spiritual Quotes #Patterns Quotes #Complacency Quotes

“I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that's what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy.”
“Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others.”
“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.”
“You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.”
“Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.”
“There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.”
“If there's anything I'd like to preach about, the loudest, other than the Gospel, it's selfishness. If there's anything I'd like to impress upon the hearts and minds of my people, it's to get out of the self life.”
“My head is in Liverpool and on helping save our season. I am professional and I always fulfil my deals. I haven't considered leaving, although in football that depends on the club.”

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