John Stott

It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our…

— John Stott

As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

— John Stott

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

— John Stott

If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on…

— John Stott

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our…

— John Stott

All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.

— John Stott

Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

— John Stott

“What dominated his mind was not the living but the giving of his life.”

— John Stott

Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of…

— John Stott

“So the fundamental question before the church is who is Lord? Is the church the lord of Jesus Christ, so that it…

— John Stott

Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.

— John Stott

God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

— John Stott

The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God.

— John Stott

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

— John Stott

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not…

— John Stott

To evangelize is to spread the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead according…

— John Stott

When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.

— John Stott

Biblical righteousness is more than a private and personal affair; it includes social righteousness as well....Thus Christians are committed to hunger for…

— John Stott

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

— John Stott

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

— John Stott

Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never…

— John Stott

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit…

— John Stott

I have never been able to conjure up (as some great Evangelical missionaries have) the appalling vision of the millions who are…

— John Stott

The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus…

— John Stott

... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not…

— John Stott