Quotes from John Stott

God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

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

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

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

Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

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.

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.

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

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

God continues to speak through what He has spoken.

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.

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.

So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.

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.

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.