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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
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
God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
— John Stott
We live and die; Christ died and lived!
— 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
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
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
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 truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
— John R.W. 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
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
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
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
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on
— John Stott
God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.
— John Stott
The Bible isn't about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.
— John R.W. Stott
There's always been a women's movement this century!
— Mary 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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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[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
