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Christ Quotes by John Stott
- So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.
- 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…
- Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
- The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.
- The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship…
- At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order…
- The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when…
- God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
- The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our…
- Do we claim to believe in God? He's a missionary God. You tell me you're committed to Christ. He's a missionary Christ. Are you filled…
- The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the world. For the…
- To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of…
- Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.
- The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake…
- The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
- The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of…
- God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.
- Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
- At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
- Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order…
- Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
- We live and die; Christ died and lived!
- To evangelize is to spread the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead according to the Scriptures,…
- Universalism, fashionable as it is today, is incompatible with the teaching of Christ and His apostles, and is a deadly enemy of evangelism. The true…
- The Bible is the portrait of Jesus Christ.
More Christ Quotes
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps… — Teresa of Avila
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila
- Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors,… — Teresa of Avila
- You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar. — Sebastian Bach
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face… — William Barclay
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth
- Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought… — Bruce Barton