143 Quotes by John R.W. Stott

"The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name."

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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."

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"A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle."

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"All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size."

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"The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin."

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"We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love."

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"At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself."

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"Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity – Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself."

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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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"We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ."

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