John Piper Quotes

When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.

All heroes are shadows of Christ

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

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.

Now unto him who is able to strengthen you ... be glory.

God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.

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.

Giving is a way of having what you need.

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.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

Most foundationally, marriage is the doing of God. And ultimately, marriage is the display of God.

And because his love for you never had a beginning, it can have no end.

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.

himself. This is the meaning of his coming. This

God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

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.

My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.

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.

Sanctification is a community project.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

That is not just the story of Israel. It's the story of humanity. It's the story of my life and your life.

Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.

God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.

But we also need stories. Great stories.

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven.
The Gospel is how people get to God.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

Cancer does not win if we die. It wins if we fail to cherish Christ.

The all-glorious Christ is both the means and the goal of our salvation from blindness.

The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.

True worship must include inward feelings that reflect the worth of God's glory.

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

(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,

Go, send, or disobey.

Reading is more important to me than eating.

If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.

Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.

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.

The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.

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.

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.

You cannot know what prayer is for, until you know that life is war.

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.

Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

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.

The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.

The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God's glory.

God uses means to awaken joy in himself,

The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those whose "god is their belly" (Philippi- ans 3:19).

The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

A persistently fruitless hearer of the Word cannot be a disciple of Jesus

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.

God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.

Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

Adoption is the visible Gospel.

A fool's tongue," Bruce Waltke wryly notes, "is long enough to cut his own throat."4

Now we see that every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.

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.

Don't be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

I have no sure sight of God's glory except through his word. The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.

Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions

God's reality is overwhelmingly intrusive in all the details of life.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

When you bow down your head to pray
Let the first thing that you say
Be a lowly word and meek:
I admit that I am weak.

If we abandon the fullness of the gospel to make racial and ethnic diversity quicker or easier, we create a mere shadow of the kingdom, an imitation.