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Religion Quotes by John Stott

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A deaf church is a dead church. Stott teaches that true mission flows from God's heart and needs believers to proclaim the gospel to every listener. He warns that any theology ignoring the cross becomes empty, and that over‑emphasizing one truth creates heresy.

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The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.

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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

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The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

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There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.

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Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

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As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

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

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The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God.

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Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by…

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The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.

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The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented…

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There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of…

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We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

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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 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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The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

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We must never think of salvation as a kind of transaction between God and us in which He contributes grace and we…

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“It was by his death that he wished above all else to be remembered. There is then, it is safe to say,…

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So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins…

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The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey;…

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We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a…

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“P. T. Forsyth, the English Congregationalist, wrote in The Cruciality of the Cross (1909): Christ is to us just what his cross…

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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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“Unless some people are commissioned for the task, there will be no gospel preachers; unless the gospel is preached, sinners will not…

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

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Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of…

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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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“So the fundamental question before the church is who is Lord? Is the church the lord of Jesus Christ, so that it…

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Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

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We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.

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

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Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity…

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The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.

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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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The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and…

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Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of…

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We preachers cannot expect to communicate verbally from the pulpit if we visually out of it contradict ourselves.

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

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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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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,…