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 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."

- John Stott

Leadership

"We live and die; Christ died and lived!"

- John Stott

Faith

"Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us."

- John Stott

Reflection

"We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God."

- John Stott

Vision

"We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others."

- John Stott

Generosity

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"In a sense, your small and simple sacrifices are the dots of daily living that make up the masterpiece painting of your life. You may not see how the dots connect now, and you don’t need to yet. Simply have faith enough for the moment you are living in now. Trust in God, and ‘out of small things [will come] that which is great’ [Doctrine and Covenants 64:33]."

- Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Faith

"With God all things are possible."

Faith

"For we walk by faith, not by sight."

Faith

"Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.’"

Faith

"Jesus answered, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’"

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