Quotes about christ
christian tears truth-is
The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them. John Stott
christian responsibility impossible
Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor. John Stott
christian jesus secret
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ John Stott
christian jesus doe
Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus. John Stott
christian focus community
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. John Stott
christian sacrifice self
Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion. John Stott
christian humility pride
At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend. John Stott
christian clueless enlightenment
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless. John Stott
christian hazards discouragement
The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement. John Stott
christian jesus vision
Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus. John Stott
christian mature neglect
Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature. John Stott
christian scripture impossible
It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible. John Stott
christian conservative should
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. John Stott
christian decision christ
Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so. John Stott
christian humble hands
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve. John Stott
christian brother father
The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness. John Stott
christian counter-culture long
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture . John Stott
christian jesus men
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. John Stott
christian easter christ-on-the-cross
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us. John Stott
christian vision missionary
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God. John Stott
christian-inspirational our-love love-grows
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. John Stott
christian character understanding
Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead. John Stott
christian lying community
An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community. John Stott
christian real tree
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on John Stott
christian real hands
God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt? John Stott
christian wish christianity
Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it. John Scalzi
christian men two
There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian. John Piper
christian writing biblical
The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection. John Piper
christ-on-the-cross world boast
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. John Piper
christian roots fasting
Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God John Piper
christian hurt roots
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church. John Piper
christian jesus believe
A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ. John Piper
christian impossible christian-life
The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural. John Piper