“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
No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky… — 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
“We must be global Christians with a global vision because we serve a global God.” — 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
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
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
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
Universalism, fashionable as it is today, is incompatible with the teaching of Christ and His apostles, and is a deadly enemy of… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“It was by his death that he wished above all else to be remembered. There is then, it is safe to say,… — 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
Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity… — 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