John Stott quotes

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. (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
The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
John Stott
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture .
John Stott
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
John Stott
Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.
John Stott
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
John Stott
God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.
John Stott
Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
John Stott
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
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)
A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.
John Stott
Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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
Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.
John Stott
At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
John Stott
We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.
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
An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.
John Stott
Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment. (John Stott)
Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.
John Stott
The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.
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
All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
John Stott