The Message of the Sermon on the Mount by John R W Stott Quotes

“Jesus calls his disciples to exert a double influence on the community. A negative influence by arresting its decay as salt and a positive influence by bringing light into the darkness. God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain safe and sound inside churchy little salt shakers. Instead, we are to be rubbed into the secular world to stop it from going bad.”
― John R W Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount by John R W Stott

“Thus, right at the beginning of his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus contradicted all human judgments and all nationalistic expectations of the kingdom of God.

The kingdom is given to the poor, not the rich;

the feeble, not the mighty;

to little children humble enough to accept it, not to soldiers who boast that they can obtain it by their own prowess.”
― John R W Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount by John R W Stott