Skip to content

Quote by John Stott

Download Open image

““For sin is ‘an implicitly aggressive quality – a ruthlessness, a hurting, a breaking away from God and from the rest of humanity, a partial alienation, or act of rebellion....Sin has a willful, defiant or disloyal quality: someone is defied or offended or hurt’ (p.19). To ignore this would be dishonest.””

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings)

More by John Stott

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating…

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…

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…

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…

Image

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

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…

Image

The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.

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…

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),…

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…

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…

Image

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

Image

Explore all 198 John Stott quotes