John Stott Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

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

  John Stott

  Prayer, Purpose, God's Will

  John Stott (2016). “Reading Romans with John Stott”, p.113, InterVarsity Press

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

  John Stott

  Prayer, Humble, Needs

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.133, SPCK

• 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.

  John Stott

  Prayer, Goes On, Our Love

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.86, SPCK

• 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”

• 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.

  John Stott

  Prayer, Bending, Way

  John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.145, SPCK

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