John Stott Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• 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.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Ambition, Men

• When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Jobs, Home

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

  John Stott

  Ambition, Inappropriate, Cherish

  John Stott (2000). “Sermon on the Mount”, p.74, InterVarsity Press

• Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never be modest. There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. How can we ever be content that he should acquire just a little more honour in the world? No. Once we are clear that God is King, then we long to see him crowned with glory and honour, and accorded his true place, which is the supreme place. We become ambitious for the spread of his kingdom and righteousness everywhere.

  John Stott

  Kings, Ambition, Self

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