John Stott Quotes - Page 3

When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.

It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

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.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.

The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. The Christian life is an unending festival. And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it.

Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

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

Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvellous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.

There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.

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.

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.

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.