143 Quotes by John R.W. Stott

The nature of salvation is peace, or reconciliation – peace with God, peace with others, peace within.

Souls are won for Christ by tears and sweat and pain, especially in prayer and in sacrificial personal friendship.

We are not under law as a way of salvation but as a guide to conduct. 

Experience must never be the criterion of truth; truth must always be the criterion of experience.

Just as Jesus performed what in his culture was the work of a slave, so we in our cultures must regard no task too menial or degrading to undertake.

Only if we share Christ's death on earth will we share his life in heaven.

We are to be like Christ in his incarnation.

In God’s providence we have four gospels! For Jesus Christ is too great and glorious a person to be captured by one author or one perspective.

The essence of discipleship is union with Christ, which means identification with him in both his sufferings and his glory.