Timothy Dudley-Smith presents an anthology of the best from John R.W. Stott. It is a rare blend of godly wisdom and spiritual truth--theology in the finest sense--not to be devoured in haste but to be savored, pondered, remembered and shared.
Ordained deacon 1950, priest 1951 Archdeacon of Norwich, 1973-81 Bishop of Thetford, 1981-91
Since 1992 in retirement at 9 Ashlands, Ford, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 6DY, England.
As a hymn writer, has published c. 400 hymn texts (no music, but many to well-known tunes) originally in four single-author collections, now out of print, but subsumed into a larger collected edition, A House of Praise, 2003 and the three supplementary collections from the Oxford University Press. Many such hymns appear in published hymnals throughout the English-speaking world and in translation. He is an honorary vice-president of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE 'for services to hymnody', and in 2009 an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) from the University of Durham.
An assembly of thought-provoking nuggets from one of my favorite Christian thinkers, organized topically in a way to make it a highly useful reference for accessible quotes on key subjects.