Quotes from John Stott
God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
- John Stott
What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
- John Stott
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
- John Stott
The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God.
- John Stott
Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.
- John Stott
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
- John Stott
The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
- John Stott
Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.
- John Stott
I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.
- John Stott
Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
- John Stott
The Bible isn't about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.
- John Stott
There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
- John Stott