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
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
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on — 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
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
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless. — 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
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 Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without… — John Stott Copy Share Image
When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Biblical righteousness is more than a private and personal affair; it includes social righteousness as well....Thus Christians are committed to hunger for… — 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
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
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. — 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
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
Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting… — John Stott Copy Share Image
A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially… — 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