John Stott Quotes - Page 2

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

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.

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.

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'

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.

It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.

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

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

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.

Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

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.

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

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

A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.

Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.

We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.

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

Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.

Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church