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John Piper Quotes - Page 16

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I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring,

I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.

Husband, Father, Names

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

Worry, Generosity, Simplicity

God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.

Believe, Thinking, Impact

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

Bread Of Life, Cost, Kingdoms

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

Looks, World, Treasure

Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions

World, Glory, Missions

John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.52, Baker Academic

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Misery, Sin, Carrie

Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

Inspiring, Music, Christian

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

Christian, School, Fighting

A saving knowledge of Christ crucified and risen is not the mere result of right reasoning about historical facts. It is the result of spiritual illumination to see those facts for what they really are: a revelation of the truth and glory of God in the face of Christ-who is the same yesterday today and forever.

Spiritual, Yesterday, Illumination

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.

People, Needs, Looks

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

The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.

Jesus, Children, Taken

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

Missionary, Doe, Magnificence

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

The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.

Garden, Discipline, Schedules

History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin.

Sin, Adam, Belts

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

Baptism, Doctrine, Primaries

John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.155, B&H Publishing Group

The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.

Son, Calling, Way

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

Accomplishment, Needs, World

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

Heart, Fire, Mind

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

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

Army, Sacrifice, Self

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

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

Mother, Gasoline, Mouths

Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for more grace - future grace - and thus magnifying the infinite resources of God's love and power.

Grace, Doe, Trust In God

John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.37, Multnomah

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

Passion, Mean, Would Be

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.

Moving, Giving, Joy

We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.

People, Lovers, Lost

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