All John Stott Quotes
- So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God. Attitude
- 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… Discovering
- Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him. Chosen
- Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony Cannot Live
- 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… Ancient
- 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… Bearing
- 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… Asserts
- 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… Allow
- 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… Cash
- Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable. Acceptance
- God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator. Care
- We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess. Enemy
- Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues. Care
- Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents. Adherents
- A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not. Acceptable
- 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… Baptism
- 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… Abraham
- 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… Bible
- Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus. Call
- 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… Both
- The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales. Cross
- The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously. Culture
- Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection. All
- God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to… Anything Else
- The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us. Bible