John Stott Quotes

Quotes about:

• We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

  John Stott

  Light, Religion, World

  199 Copy quote

• We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

  John Stott

  Spiritual, Patterns, Complacency

  "John Stott: 10 Memorable Quotes" by Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. July 28, 2011.

  166 Copy quote

• 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 be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?

  John Stott

  Christian, Real, Hands

  186 Copy quote

• A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

  John Stott

  Christian, Real, Tree

  189 Copy quote

• Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

  John Stott

  Christian Inspirational, Our Love, Love Grows

  John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.160, SPCK

  130 Copy quote

• The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

  John Stott

  Prayer, Purpose, God's Will

  John Stott (2016). “Reading Romans with John Stott”, p.113, InterVarsity Press

  153 Copy quote

• 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 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

  John Stott

  Bible, God, Christian

  177 Copy quote

• Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture .

  John Stott

  Christian, Counter Culture, Long

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.44, SPCK

  127 Copy quote

• Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

  John Stott

  Christian, Easter, Christ On The Cross

  John Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (2009). “The Cross”, p.15, InterVarsity Press

  118 Copy quote

• Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

  John Stott

  Bible, Christian, Mature

  John R. W. Stott (1991). “You Can Trust the Bible: Our Foundation for Belief and Obedience”, Discovery House Pub

  61 Copy quote

• Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

  John Stott

  Christian, Character, Understanding

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Acts”, p.27, InterVarsity Press

  106 Copy quote

• God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

  John Stott

  Doe, God Love, Christ

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.172, InterVarsity Press

  31 Copy quote

• The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

  John Stott

  Christian, Humble, Hands

  John R. W. Stott (1985). “Involvement: Social and sexual relationships in the modern world”, Fleming H. Revell Company

  85 Copy quote

• 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 it that those who have no biblical convictions or theology to govern and direct their actions are tolerated and the standard or truth of God's Word rightly divided and applied is dismissed as extreme opinion or legalism?

  John Stott

  Spiritual, Biblical, Tolerance

  125 Copy quote

• At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.

  John Stott

  Christian, Humility, Pride

  33 Copy quote

• Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.

  John Stott

  Christian, Holiness, And Love

  14 Copy quote

• 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 judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

  John Stott

  Echoes, Mind, Scripture

  "Authentic Christianity". Book by John Stott, 1995.

  101 Copy quote

• The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God.

  John Stott

  People, Spirit, Submit

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Acts”, p.35, InterVarsity Press

  53 Copy quote

• Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

  John Stott

  Children, Together, May

  John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.150, SPCK

  62 Copy quote

• 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 bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.

  John Stott

  Cutting, Gay, Suffering

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.63, InterVarsity Press

  85 Copy quote

• Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

  John Stott

  Greatness, Kingdoms, Obedience

  33 Copy quote

• The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

  John Stott

  Giving, World, Compass

  12 Copy quote

• 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 most luminously revealed, whether the justice of God in judging sin, or the love of God in bearing the judgment in our place, or the wisdom of God in perfectly combining the two, or the power of God in saving those who believe. For the cross is equally an act, and therefore a demonstration, of God’s justice, love, wisdom and power. The cross assures us that this God is the reality within, behind and beyond the universe.

  John Stott

  Believe, Reality, Justice Of God

  John Stott, Alister E. McGrath (2006). “The Cross of Christ”, p.274, InterVarsity Press

  28 Copy quote

• It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

  John Stott

  Feet, Size, Crosses

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.63, InterVarsity Press

  43 Copy quote

• God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

  John Stott

  Knowing, Way, Scripture

  12 Copy quote

Page 1 of 7

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin