John Stott Christ Quotations

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

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

God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.

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.

If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.