Quotes from John Stott

Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

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

Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.

Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.

If we love our neighbor we shall without doubt tell him the good news of Jesus. But equally if we truly love our neighbor we shall not stop there.

God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.

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

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

A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.

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.

Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.

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

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God's love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship.