Quotes from John Stott
The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
- John Stott
Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.
- John Stott
Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.
- John Stott
It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
- John Stott
We live and die; Christ died and lived!
- John Stott
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
If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.
- John Stott
His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.
- John Stott
We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
- John Stott
God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.
- John Stott
If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.
- John Stott
Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony
- John Stott