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John Piper Quotes - Page 15

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All heroes are shadows of Christ

All heroes are shadows of Christ

Hero, Shadow, Christ

The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir is invisible except through the promises. But the ever-enlarging pool of past grace is visible; and God means for the certainty and beauty and depth to strengthen our faith in future grace.

Mean, Past, Grace

John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.100, Multnomah

Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That’s the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved.

Jesus, Believe, Mean

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

Pain, Order, Earth

To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.

Joy, Soul, Finals

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.87, Multnomah

God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

Hair, Safety, Locks

John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.185, Multnomah

When it comes to killing my sin, I don't wait for the miracle, I act the miracle.

Waiting, Miracle, Sin

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

Joy, Done, Idolatry

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

Deeds, Lines, Emptiness

Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.

Encouragement, Taken, Giving

There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.

Needs, World, Compare

John's baptism...was a radical act of individual commitment to belong to the true people of God, based on personal confession and repentance... This is one of the main reasons that I do not believe in baptizing infants, who cannot make this personal commitment or confession or repentance. John's baptism was an assault on the very assumptions that give rise to much infant baptism.

Believe, Commitment, People

We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

Powerful, Blessed, Names

Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the meaning of this magnitude is not mainly about us. It’s about God… The reason for ‘wasting’ so much space on a universe to house a speck of humanity is to make a point about our maker, not us.

Men, Space, People

If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby's legs and arms one by one and place them on the table like a dentist removing cotton from your mouth - if all Americans were made to see what it really is, the pro-life goal of abortion being unthinkable (not just illegal) would be much nearer.

Baby, Doctors, Goal

Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.

Passion, Opposites, Life And Death

John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

Sex, Block, Kitchen

The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is

Heart, Views, Joy

John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.35, SPCK

The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, responding to sound. All his organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a fingerprint. His genetic code is uniquely and unquestionably human. And, if we are willing, he can be seen by ultrasound.

Baby, Heart, Cells

The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.

Greatness, Goal, Missions

Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.

Passion, Thinking, Knowing

I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.

Want, I Can

Go, send, or disobey.

Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Missions

The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

College, Men, Goal

Ways to be actively involved in the solution: 1. Consider adoption. 2. Be a regular giver of your money to Crisis Pregnancy Centers. 3. Volunteer in a Crisis Pregnancy Center. 4. Be involved in spreading truth with good literature. 5. Make your presence know at the abortion clinics in town (by) writing or phoning or visiting and talking, if you can, with those who work there. 6. Dream a new kind of ministry. 7. Pray!

Dream, Pregnancy, Writing

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