At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. — John Stott Copy Share Image
God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place. — John Stott Copy Share Image
We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough… — 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
These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what… — John Stott Copy Share Image
To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He… — 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
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
“Further, this human responsibility is in the first instance ‘not...a task but a gift,...not law but grace’. It expresses itself in ‘believing,… — John Stott Copy Share Image
God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator. — John Stott Copy Share Image
A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not. — John Stott Copy Share Image
We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others. — John Stott Copy Share Image
When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity. — 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 essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier. — John Stott Copy Share Image
It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our… — John Stott Copy Share Image
All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name. — John Stott Copy Share Image
If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on… — John Stott Copy Share Image
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we… — 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
...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical… — 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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