166 Quotes by John Stott

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

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.

When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.

If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.

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.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.