John Piper Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Piper
John Piper Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from John Piper on Wise Famous Quotes.
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.
All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.
Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture.
Nothing sobers a wandering philosophical imagination like the thought of having a wife and children to support.
No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.
Don't leave Christmas in the abstract. Your sin. Your conflict with the Devil. Your victory. He came for this.
Humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
Christ came to prove that God tells the truth, that God keeps his promises. Christmas means that God can be trusted.
Christmas split history. Foretastes of the future abound. Drink deeply on what he achieved for us. And be filled with hope for all that is coming.
When everything in life is stripped away except God, and we trust him more because of it, this is gain, and he is glorified.
Doing right for right's sake is atheistic.Christians should do what God says is right because in doing it we enjoy more of God.
Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.
That is not just the story of Israel. It's the story of humanity. It's the story of my life and your life.
Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.
(1) Singing can help us remember words, which means that we should use melodies that are effective, sing words that God wants us to remember,
If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.
The hardened disobedience of men's hearts leads not to the frustration of God's plans, but to their fruition.
God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.
God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.
Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God?
A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.
Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.
Not to aim to show God is not to love, because God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end.
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its
intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.
intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.
What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those whose "god is their belly" (Philippi- ans 3:19).
Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
People lift their hand to rebel against the Most High only to find that their rebellion is unwitting service in the wonderful designs of God.
There never has been a greater act of love than that Jesus laid down his life to save sinners (John 15:13; Rom. 5:6-8).
Salvation is not mainly the forgiveness of sins, but mainly the fellowship of Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:9).
The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.
Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)
If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.
I have no sure sight of God's glory except through his word. The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.
One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.
There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.