The Message of the Sermon on the Mount Quotes

“we cannot receive the mercy and forgiveness of God unless we repent, and we cannot claim to have repented of our sins if we are unmerciful towards the sins of others”
― John R.W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount

“The glory of the gospel is that when the Church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount

“we are to ‘hunger and thirst for righteousness’. For what is the use of confessing and lamenting our sin, of acknowledging the truth about ourselves to both God and men, if we leave it there? Confession of sin must lead to hunger for righteousness.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount

“Prayer, then, is not ‘unseemly’; it is the very way God himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of him and our humble dependence on him.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount

“The Old Testament is the Gospel in the bud, the New Testament is the Gospel in full flower. The Old Testament is the Gospel in the blade; the New Testament is the Gospel in full ear.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount

“Whenever Christians are conscientious citizens, they are acting like salt in the community. As Sir Frederick Catherwood put it in his contribution to the symposium Is revolution change? ‘To try to improve society is not worldliness but love. To wash your hands of society is not love but worldliness.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount

“A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount

“The noun eleos (mercy)… always deals with what we see of pain, misery and distress, these results of sin; and charis (grace) always deals with the sin and guilt itself. The one extends relief, the other pardon; the one cures, heals, helps, the other cleanses and reinstates.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount