John Stott Quotes

Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.

The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.

The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God.

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

But the Holy Spirit is not in a hurry. Character is the produce of a lifetime.

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

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.

Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

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

There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.

Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church

Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it.

We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.

God continues to speak through what He has spoken.

Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.

We live and die; Christ died and lived!

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.

Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.

So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.

Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.

The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.

Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.

If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

The cross is not just a badge to identify us ... it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

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.

Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.

Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.

The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.

If we love our neighbor we shall without doubt tell him the good news of Jesus. But equally if we truly love our neighbor we shall not stop there.

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.

Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

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.

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

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

God intends ... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.

Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.

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

It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.