Cross John Stott Quotes

#1. 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

#2. A marriage that isn't built around the Cross will be devoid of grace, mercy, and humility that come when both husband and wife recognize their need for a savior.

John R.W. Stott

#3. We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

#4. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

John Stott

#5. Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.

John Stott

#6. As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both, "I did it, my sins sent him there," and "He did it, his love took him there.

John R.W. Stott

#7. There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.

John Stott

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

John R.W. Stott

#9. Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.

John Stott

#10. Vladimir Putin uses fascist propaganda to do so. From Ukraine to Syria, he is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the sidelines and Europe sleeps. The West's behavior toward Putin is political and moral capitulation.

Garry Kasparov

#11. 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.

John Stott

#12. The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

John Stott

#13. We are not, therefore, to regard the cross as defeat and the resurrection as victory. Rather, the cross was the victory won, and the resurrection the victory endorsed, proclaimed and demonstrated.

John R.W. Stott

#14. Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.

John R.W. Stott

#15. The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.

John Stott

#16. Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public.

Simon McBurney

#17. No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

John Stott

#18. Without love, there can be no connection, no future, and no success together.

John C. Maxwell

#19. There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.

John Stott

#20. Seduction by one's own ego is a fearful thing.

Marti Garlett Watson

#21. I'm not into caps with lots of diamonds on them, like KP.

James Anderson

#22. 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

#23. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh.

Benjamin Franklin

#24. Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

Natalie Portman

#25. The cross is not just a badge to identify us ... it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

John Stott

#26. I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.

Kurt Cobain

#27. The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.

John Stott

#28. God makes us ask ourselves questions most often when He intends to resolve them. He gives us needs that He alone can satisfy, and awakens capacities that He means to fulfill. Any perplexity is liable to be a spiritual gestation, leading to a new birth and a mystical regeneration.

Thomas Merton

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

John R.W. Stott