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John Piper Quotes - Page 18

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If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called

If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.

Men, Compassion, Mercy

Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one.

Mean, Love Is, Confusion

John Piper (2009). “Life as a Vapor: Thirty-One Meditations for Your Faith”, p.156, Multnomah

I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.

Special, Church, Calling

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

Reality, Water, Heaven

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

The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.

Block, Distance, Years

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.

Hurt, People, Dishonor

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

Christian, Rising, Firsts

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

Broken, Simplicity, Contentment

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.129, Multnomah

Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

Jesus, Worship, Rejects

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

Art, Behavior, Homosexual

What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.

Essence, Evil, Broken

Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.

Jesus, Jerusalem, Certain Death

Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

Tragedy, Christ, Wasted Life

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

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

Hurt, People, Dishonor

John Piper (2009). “Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.348, Multnomah

I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.

Helpful, Aim, Practicals

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

Causes, Worship, Capacity

One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

Christian, Humility, Appreciate

John Piper (2013). “Alive To Wonder: Celebrating The Influence Of C.S. Lewis”, p.4, Whitaker House

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

Names, World, God Love

John Piper (2002). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.187, B&H Publishing Group

Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.

Darkness, Betrayed, Hours

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

Mirrors, Paradise, Majesty

Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?

Son, Cost, Worship

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

Appetite, Collections

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

Praise, Praise God, Pleasure

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.

Life Changing, Mean, Blood

Sanctification is a community project.

Community, Projects, Sanctification

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