Apostasy Quote by John Stott Download Open image “The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.” — John Stott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apostasy Apostasy Changing Changing Sides Essence Essence Apostasy Inspirational Love Religion Sides Sides Crucified
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples. — Martin Hengel Copy Share Image
“The purpose of being “crucified with Christ” is so that Christ will live in us. The measure of our heart's purity is the degree… — Morgan Guyton Copy Share Image
“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The afflictions of the wicked exasperate them, enrage them, stone and pave them, obdurate and petrify them, but they do not crucify them. The… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating… — John Stott Copy Share 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… — John Stott Copy Share 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… — John Stott Copy Share 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… — John Stott Copy Share 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… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true. — John Stott Copy Share 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… — John Stott Copy Share 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),… — John Stott Copy Share 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… — John Stott Copy Share 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… — John Stott Copy Share Image
There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. — John Stott Copy Share Image
“A treacherous President stood in the way; and it can be easily seen how reluctant good men might be to admit an apostasy which… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy,… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
“When apostasy comes, it is because the spirit of revelation departs from us. The wire is broken between us and the source of truth.… — John A. Widtsoe Copy Share Image
“As far as concerned the apostasy, indeed, He redeems us righteously from it by His own blood; but as regards us who have been… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience... — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there is a thin line separating orthodox zeal from apostasy,' said Father Lenar Hoyt” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“And since the apostasy tyrannized over us unjustly, and, though we were by nature the property of the omnipotent God, alienated us contrary to… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
The Bible says that in the last days, there would be false teachers. And, it also says that in the End Times that... there… — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image