Quotes from John Stott
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
- John Stott
The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
- John Stott
Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
- John Stott
It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
- John Stott
We should not ask, 'What is wrong with the world?' for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, "What has happened to salt and light?
- John Stott
We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
- John Stott
Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.
- John Stott
The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.
- John Stott
Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
- John Stott
There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.
- John Stott
[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.
- John Stott
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
- John Stott