Quotes from John Stott

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.

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.

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?

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.

Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

We live and die; Christ died and lived!

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.

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.

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.

We live and die; Christ died and lived!

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.

God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

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.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.