John Stott Quotes

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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.
• It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him…
• Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
• Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony
• The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh…
• Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am…
• For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2…
• We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its…
• The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while…
• Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
• God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
• We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.
• Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
• Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
• A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.
• Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is…
• The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless "all the families of the earth," he has promised to do so…
• A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the…
• Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.
• The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while…

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