John Stott Quotes about Scripture

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We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. 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

Echoes, Mind, Scripture

"Authentic Christianity". Book by John Stott, 1995.

God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

John Stott

Knowing, Way, Scripture

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

John Stott

Christian, Scripture, Impossible

God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.

John Stott

Prayer, Liberty, Scripture

John Stott (1992). “The contemporary Christian: an urgent plea for double listening”