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John Piper Quotes - Page 12

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Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

Strong, Biblical, Scripture

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.104, Multnomah

The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.

Men, Woven, Messages

John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.18, SPCK

We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. And where it can’t, it weeps.

Mean, Cynical, Rotting

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.

Thinking, Grace, Gold

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.203, Multnomah

The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men in ways appropriate to a woman's differing relationships.

Heart, Men, Way

The inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer - family, career, retirement, fame, food, friends. The essence of worship is experiencing Christ as gain. Or to use words that we love to use around here: it is savoring Christ, treasuring Christ, being satisfied with Christ.

Retirement, Essence, Careers

John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.261, B&H Publishing Group

In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.

Pride, Wrath, Proud

John Piper (2004). “The Supremacy of God in Preaching”, p.32, Baker Books

Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.

Skills, Satisfaction, Burden

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.

Heart, Reflecting Back, Done

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.92, Multnomah

Every Christian who struggles with depression struggles to keep their hope clear. There is nothing wrong with the object of their hope - Jesus Christ is not defective in any way whatsoever. But the view from the struggling Christian's heart of their objective hope could be obscured by disease and pain, the pressures of life, and by Satanic fiery darts shot against them... All discouragement and depression is related to the obscuring of our hope, and we need to get those clouds out of the way and fight like crazy to see clearly how precious Christ is.

Depression, Christian, Jesus

CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

Christian, Moving, Done

Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us; abundance for others.

Spiritual, Environmental, Doe

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.203, Multnomah

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

America, Culture, Firsts

The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

Jesus, Differences, Forever

Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.

Jesus, Teaching, Giving

John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.88, SPCK

There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.

Passion, Worship, Draws

John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.62, Baker Academic

There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.

Jesus, People, Heaven

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

Heart, Past, Pastor

John Piper (2016). “A Camaraderie of Confidence: The Fruit of Unfailing Faith in the Lives of Charles Spurgeon, George Müller and Hudson Taylor”, p.21, SPCK

Oh that God would help me waken in you a single passion for a single great reality that would unleash you, and set you free from small dreams, and send you, for the glory of Christ, into all the spheres of secular life and to all the peoples of the earth.

Dream, Passion, Reality

I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.

Christian, Spiritual, Heart

Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

Christian, Passion, Evil

Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller in your heart.

Heart, Years, Bigger

Grace is power, not just pardon.

Grace, Enabling, Pardon

I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man. There is no part of life where the greatness of God does not penetrate deeply. I want to help you feel that.

Greatness, Men, Glimpse

At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.

Heart, Responsibility, Men

John Piper (1990). “What's the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible”

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