We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What… — 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
The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough. — 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
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously. — John Stott Copy Share Image
We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never… — 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
Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him… — 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
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