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Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
— John R.W. Stott
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
— John R.W. Stott
For 'worship' is an abbreviation of 'worthship'.
— John R.W. Stott
Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.
— John R.W. Stott
Jesus Christ, we believe, is the fulfilment of every truly human aspiration. To find him is to find ourselves.
— John R.W. Stott
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
— John R.W. Stott
The power to save lies in the one who is gazed upon, not the one who does the looking.
— John R.W. Stott
For whenever we turn away from Christ, we 'are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace' (Heb. 6:6).
— John R.W. Stott
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
— John R.W. Stott
Every time we allow our mind to harbour a grudge, nurse a grievance, entertain an impure fantasy, or wallow in self-pity, we are sowing to the flesh.
— John R.W. Stott
As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both, "I did it, my sins sent him there," and "He did it, his love took him there.
— John R.W. Stott
If we claim to be Christian, we must be like Christ.
— John R.W. Stott
To love the glory of God more than our own glory is also to seek approval from God rather than other people.
— John R.W. Stott
God hides himself from intellectual dilettantes, but reveals himself in Christ to those who humbly seek him.
— John R.W. Stott
Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.
— John R.W. Stott
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
— John R.W. Stott
What God said to Abraham was not 'Obey this law and I will bless you', but 'I will bless you; believe my promise'.
— John R.W. Stott
The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
— John R.W. Stott
Envy! Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.
— John R.W. Stott
But when the teaching of the Bible is plain, then continuing to maintain an open mind is a sign not of maturity, but of immaturity.
— John R.W. Stott
Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the Father, for love!'181
— John R.W. Stott
[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.
— John R.W. Stott
There is no value in the reading of Scripture for its own sake, but only if it effectively introduces us to Jesus Christ.
— John R.W. Stott
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
— John R.W. Stott
The Bible isn't about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.
— John R.W. Stott
Jesus evidently thought that human beings still retained a residue of their former glory.
— John R.W. Stott
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
— John R.W. Stott
The radical biblical perspective is to see death not as the termination of life but as the gateway to life.
— John R.W. Stott
The spirit of our age is hostile toward people who state their opinions clearly and hold them strongly.
— John R.W. Stott
What dominated his mind was not the living but the giving of his life.
— John R.W. Stott