John Stott quotes - page 2

Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus. (John Stott)
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 both is Jesus Christ.
John Stott
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 essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.
John Stott
The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.
John Stott
Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.
John Stott
No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky blackness of the night sky that the stars begin to appear, and it is only against the dark background of sin and judgment that the gospel shines forth.
John Stott
The Bible isn't about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.
John Stott
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 superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God's grace.
John Stott
If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.
John Stott
Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.
John Stott
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God. (John Stott)
We live and die; Christ died and lived!
John Stott
Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him that one day we must give an account. We should not therefore rate human opinion too highly.
John Stott
In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?
John Stott
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 to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.
John Stott
Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
John Stott
Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.
John Stott
His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.
John Stott
Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.
John Stott
The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
John Stott
The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum. (John Stott)
Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.
John Stott
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
John Stott
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
John Stott