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God 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.
- 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
- 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…
- God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
- 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…
- 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…
- The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
- 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…
- The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.
- 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.
- Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people…
- The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds…
- I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God’s voice…
- Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual…
- Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and…
- 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…
- Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner…
- Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of Christianity. Why is…
- 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…
- When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is the…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi