John Mott Quotes

#1. Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.

John Mott

#2. I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.

Joe Lando

#3. That is a trial I must face," Veka said.
"No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

Jim C. Hines

#4. Being prime minister is a lonely job ... you cannot lead from the crowd.

Margaret Thatcher

#5. While life lasts, I am an evangelist.

John Mott

#6. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

C.S. Lewis

#7. No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.

John Mott

#8. Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

John Raleigh Mott

#9. Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

John Raleigh Mott

#10. Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.

John Mott

#11. Words ... present a picture of the inward man.

John Mott

#12. Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.

John Mott

#13. A most highly multiplying trait in point of far-reaching influences is that of ability to discover and use strong men. This trait stands out impressively in Rothschild's 'Lincoln, Master of Men'.

John Mott

#14. In order to have real prayer and action to change things, we must have conviction as to the need of prayer and action. In order to have conviction as to the need of prayer and action, we must have knowledge.

John Mott

#15. The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.

John Mott

#16. If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.

Alexander Hamilton

#17. From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the Spirit of God will work with mighty converting power.

John Mott

#18. There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

John Raleigh Mott

#19. I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

Sonia Sotomayor

#20. It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light and energy.

John Mott

#21. I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

Taylor Swift

#22. You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.

John Mott

#23. Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

John Mott

#24. As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

John Raleigh Mott

#25. Sometimes you don't feel the hits from the game until you're at home on the couch.

Eddie Lacy

#26. If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of consistent members of the Church are with one accord day by day making intercession for the extension of Christ's Kingdom.

John Mott

#27. Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.

John Mott

#28. It is a startling and solemnizing fact that even as late as the twentieth century, the Great Command of Jesus Christ to carry the Gospel to all mankind is still so largely unfulfilled.

John Mott

#29. Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.

John Mott

#30. Of front-line importance among the most contagious and enduring traits of the leaders of nations and of all callings is that of spotless character.

John Mott

#31. We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

John R. Mott

#32. I went to college for four years.

Kim Kardashian

#33. The trophy wife must be in her 20s to earn the title 'trophy wife.'

Marcia Gay Harden

#34. We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.

John Raleigh Mott

#35. It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.

John R. Mott

#36. The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.

John Mott

#37. The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God ... It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth.

John Mott

#38. The world asks, How much does he give? Christ asks why does he give?

John Mott

#39. The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.

John Mott