John Stott Quotes

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

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

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Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvellous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.

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

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

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Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

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

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If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is
suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A
willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.

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

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

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

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Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.

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When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

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

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Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God's grace.

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

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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.

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The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.

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Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

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Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

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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.

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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.

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No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky blackness of the night sky that the stars begin to appear, and it is only against the dark background of sin and judgment that the gospel shines forth.

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

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All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

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