John Mott
John Mott
John Raleigh Mottwas a long-serving leader of the Young Men's Christian Associationand the World Student Christian Federation. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for his work in establishing and strengthening international Protestant Christian student organizations that worked to promote peace. He shared the prize with Emily Balch. From 1895 until 1920 Mott was the General Secretary of the WSCF. Intimately involved in the formation of the World Council of Churches in 1948, that body elected him as a...
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I always thought it would be something fun to do, ... Every call is different. But I'd say being from the valley gives me an edge.
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We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.
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I've seen open fields turn into massive housing tracts, ... And when I was in school, there were only two gangs.
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Best friends are best friends, but possessing drugs will ruin life and is against the law,
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I have arrested people I went to high school with, played sports with and have known for years, ... Sometimes people don't think I recognize them, but I do.
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I try and encourage them about a different road to take in life,
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You're working out, you're training. It's development for next year. If people don't play, then tend to get bummed out.
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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.
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Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.
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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.
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The world asks, How much does he give? Christ asks why does he give?
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You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.
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It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light and energy.
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Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.