John Stott 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

• Cuando Jesús es realmente nuestro Señor, Él dirige nuestras vidas y nosotros le obedecemos gustosamente. De hecho, ponemos cada parte de nuestras vidas bajo Su señorío - nuestro hogar y familia, nuestra sexualidad y matrimonio, nuestro trabajo o desempleo, nuestro dinero y posesiones, nuestras ambiciones y recreaciones.

  John Stott

  Jesús, Empleo, Inicio

• 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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