The Cross Of Christ John Stott Quotes

#1. Like Bancroft, MacIntyre had been a man of power, and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.

Richard K. Morgan

#2. 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

#3. One is a comfortable partnership, where two people share the same hopes and fears, raise children as a team, and give each other comfort and help

Ken Follett

#4. In order to be treated fairly and equally, chidren have to be treated differently.

Melvin Konner

#5. That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.

Haley Joel Osment

#6. We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.

Kit Harington

#7. In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things ... and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much.

L. Ron Hubbard

#8. I don't like confrontation; I just like to sing.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#9. 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

#10. He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary.

Thomm Quackenbush

#11. Easier to assume that people have it out for you than to be disappointed when they don't come through.

Christina Baker Kline

#12. 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

#13. Darkness within clouds the world without.

Anasazi Foundation

#14. I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#15. I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

Rebecca Wells

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

John R.W. Stott

#19. 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