As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead. — John Stott Copy Share Image
The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior. — 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
There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of… — John Stott Copy Share Image
We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness. — John Stott Copy Share Image
The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented… — 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
The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier. — John Stott Copy Share Image
“And the Holy Spirit came to ‘convict the world of guilt’, but only in order that he might more effectively bear witness… — John Stott Copy Share Image
To evangelize is to spread the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead according… — 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
The particularity of each New Testament author was in no way smothered by the unique process of inspiration. On the contrary, the… — 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
Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn… — 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
When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of… — 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
“Unless some people are commissioned for the task, there will be no gospel preachers; unless the gospel is preached, sinners will not… — John Stott Copy Share Image
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“So the fundamental question before the church is who is Lord? Is the church the lord of Jesus Christ, so that it… — John Stott Copy Share Image
No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross. — John Stott Copy Share Image
We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.” — John Stott Copy Share Image
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. — John Stott Copy Share Image
All around us we see Christians and churches relaxing their grasp on the gospel, fumbling it, and in danger of letting it… — 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 gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum. — 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
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