Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion. — John Stott Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible. — John Stott Copy Share Image
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on — John Stott Copy Share Image
The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them. — 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
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 reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true. — 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 concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself… — 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
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
A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted… — 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
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
The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless "all the families of the earth," he has promised… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness… — John Stott Copy Share Image
An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites… — John Stott Copy Share Image
God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our… — 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
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
No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross. — John Stott Copy Share Image
He 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
Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement. — John Stott Copy Share Image
When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless. — John Stott Copy Share Image
At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility… — 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
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus. — 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
Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and… — 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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true. — 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 hear Christ’s… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. — John Stott Copy Share Image
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