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John Stott
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“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 (1921–2011) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Epistles of John: An Introduction and Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1964), p. 205. Commentary on 2 John 4–11
“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.”
John Stott (1921–2011) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Culture and the Bible (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1981), p. 33
“I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. The only God I believe in is the One Nietzsche ridiculed as 'God on the cross'. In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I have entered many Buddhist temples in different Asian countries and stood respectfully before the statue of the Buddha, his legs crossed, arms folded, eyes closed, the ghost of a smile playing round his mouth, a remote look on his face, detached from the agonies of the world. But each time after a while I have had to turn away. And in imagination I have turned instead to that lonely, twisted, tortured figure on the cross, nails through hands and feet, back lacerated, limbs wrenched, brow bleeding from thorn-pricks, mouth dry and intolerably thirsty, plunged in God-forsaken darkness. That is the God for me! He laid aside his immunity to pain. He entered our world of flesh and blood, tears and death. He suffered for us. Our sufferings become more manageable in the light of his. There is still a question mark against human suffering, but over it we boldly stamp another mark, the cross which symbolizes divine suffering.”
John Stott (1921–2011) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Cross of Christ (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1986), pp. 335–36