166 Quotes by John Stott

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

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.

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church

The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.

The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.