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Christian Quotes by John Stott

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John Stott explains that being a Christian is about truth, not just feeling good. He says worship must center on Jesus and the cross, and that the Bible is the foundation for a real Christian life. He also warns that love without justice can become empty.

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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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Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.

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Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

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Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

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It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

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Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

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A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

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

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We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit…

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At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility…

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Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

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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…

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Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.

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The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself…

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The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that…

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Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.

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The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless "all the families of the earth," he has promised…

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Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of…

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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…

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Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and…

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Biblical righteousness is more than a private and personal affair; it includes social righteousness as well…Thus Christians are committed to hunger for…

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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…

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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…

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Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting…

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The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has…

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God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our…

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Faith, Hope & Love. Faith is directed towards God, love towards others (both within the Christian fellowship and beyond it) and hope…

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[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization.…

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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…

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The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.

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No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

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The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

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He chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

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Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the…

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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…

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So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.

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The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

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Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.

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A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if…

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Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

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A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

So there is such a thing as perfect hatred, just as there is such a thing as righteous anger. But it is a hatred…

The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.

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When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is…

If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks…

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

“A guilty conscience is a great blessing, but only if it drives us to come home.”

The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God,…