Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. - John R.W. Stott
The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them. - John R.W. Stott
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 R.W. Stott
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously. - John R.W. Stott
[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it. - John R.W. Stott
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. - John R.W. Stott
Good conduct arises out of good doctrine. - John R.W. Stott
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
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
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
So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching. - John R.W. Stott