Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ. — John Stott Copy Share Image
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by… — John Stott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey;… — John Stott Copy Share Image
We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a… — John Stott Copy Share Image
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we… — John Stott Copy Share Image
These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Faith, Hope & Love. Faith is directed towards God, love towards others (both within the Christian fellowship and beyond it) and hope… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has… — John Stott Copy Share Image
To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Do we claim to believe in God? He's a missionary God. You tell me you're committed to Christ. He's a missionary Christ.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it. — John Stott Copy Share Image
The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating… — John Stott Copy Share
Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global… — John Stott Copy Share
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets… — John Stott Copy Share
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… — John Stott Copy Share
So there is such a thing as perfect hatred, just as there is such a thing as righteous anger. But it is a hatred… — John Stott Copy Share
“Unless some people are commissioned for the task, there will be no gospel preachers; unless the gospel is preached, sinners will not hear Christ’s… — John Stott Copy Share
“many former sins have become crimes’, so that responsibility for dealing with them has passed from church to state, from priest to policeman (p.50),… — John Stott Copy Share
When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is… — John Stott Copy Share
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks… — John Stott Copy Share
There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. — John Stott Copy Share
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents. — John Stott Copy Share
“A guilty conscience is a great blessing, but only if it drives us to come home.” — John Stott Copy Share
The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God,… — John Stott Copy Share
