John Stott

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

If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is _x000D_ suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A _x000D_ willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.

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

The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God.

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.

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

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.

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

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.

God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.

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

As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.

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

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

Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.