143 Quotes by John R.W. Stott

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.

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

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

The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

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

The overriding reason why we should take other people’s cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky blackness of the night sky that the stars begin to appear, and it is only against the dark background of sin and judgment that the gospel shines forth.

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.

If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.