Quotes from John Stott
The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
- John Stott
God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.
- John Stott
I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God's voice is heard and His people obey Him
- John Stott
God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
- John 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.
- John Stott
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.
- John Stott
God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
- John Stott
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.
- John Stott
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
- John Stott
The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.
- John Stott
So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.
- John Stott
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
- John Stott