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I knew this in my mother heart-of-hearts: This child was meant to come. — Lori Stott

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

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

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine. — John R.W. Stott

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. — John Stott

This book is dedicated to adversity. Thanks for the great story. — Shane Stott

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

For 'worship' is an abbreviation of 'worthship'. — John R.W. Stott

Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful. — Ken Stott

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

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

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. — John Stott

Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection. — John R.W. Stott

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

Jesus Christ, we believe, is the fulfilment of every truly human aspiration. To find him is to find ourselves. — John R.W. Stott

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

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

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience. — John Stott

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. — John Stott

God continues to speak through what He has spoken. — John Stott

Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft. — John Stott

We live and die; Christ died and lived! — John Stott

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

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. — John Stott

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

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

The power to save lies in the one who is gazed upon, not the one who does the looking. — John R.W. Stott

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

The forgiveness of God is a gift to be received, not a reward to be merited. — John R.W. Stott

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

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross. — John 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 church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience. — John Stott

Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues. — John Stott

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

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves. — Ken Stott

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature. — John Stott

The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them. — John R.W. Stott

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. — John Stott

If we claim to be Christian, we must be like Christ. — 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

In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme. — Ken Stott

I always leave room for serendipity and chance. — Ken 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

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

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

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no. — Ken Stott

Science doesn't reduce things, or explain mysteries away; it just discovers stranger and stranger things. — Rebecca Stott

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

Whenever I see pointless use of special effects, I reach for something else. — Ken 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Bible isn't about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us. — John R.W. Stott

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. — John Stott

There's always been a women's movement this century! — Mary Stott

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

Jesus evidently thought that human beings still retained a residue of their former glory. — John R.W. Stott

Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment. — John Stott

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

John Stott concludes, "It seems to have been Paul's deliberate policy to move purposefully from one strategic city-centre to the next."5 — Timothy J. Keller

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously. — John R.W. Stott

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride. — John 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

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

The spirit of our age is hostile toward people who state their opinions clearly and hold them strongly. — John R.W. Stott

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

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

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

What dominated his mind was not the living but the giving of his life. — John R.W. Stott

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation. — Ken 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

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. — John 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

'Death Of A Salesman' is a great acting job. — Ken Stott

I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland. — Ken Stott

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

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

The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached. — John Stott

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

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

God hides himself from intellectual dilettantes, but reveals himself in Christ to those who humbly seek him. — John R.W. Stott

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

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

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

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

I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms. — Ken Stott

In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? — John R.W. Stott

If you Christians lived like Jesus Christ, India would be at your feet tomorrow. — John R.W. Stott

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