John Stott Quotes

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• 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

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• 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?

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  Christian, Real, Hands

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

  John Stott

  Christian, Real, Tree

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• 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.

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

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  Christian Inspirational, Our Love, Love Grows

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

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  Doe, God Love, Christ

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  John Stott

  Greatness, Kingdoms, Obedience

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• 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.

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• 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

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

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  Children, Together, May

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

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• Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.

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  Prayer, Humble, Needs

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.133, SPCK

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• 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

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• 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

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• An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.

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  Christian, Lying, Community

  John Stott (2012). “The Living Church”, p.15, SPCK

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• The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

  John Stott

  People, Atheism, Reason

  John Stott, Greg Scharf (2015). “The Challenge of Preaching”, p.13, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

  John Stott

  Humble, Hands, Leader

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

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