John Stott Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.

  John Stott

  Christian, Father, Worry

• 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

• These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.

  John Stott

  Humility, Suffering, Church

• 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

  Suffering, Church, Firsts

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