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John Piper Quotes - Page 2

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Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

Mean, Past, Thinking

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Waste, Theology, Wasted Life

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

Christian, Inspiration, Passion

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

People, Heaven

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Found, Endure

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.28, Multnomah

The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

Our Generation, Leisure Activities, Heaven

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

Life Is Too Short, Waste, Painful

And in these last hours, the lifetime of this year passes before my eyes, and I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say “Well done, good and faithful servant”?

Jesus, Eye, Years

Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.

Giving, Christ

God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.

Three, May

Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy

Prayer, Needs, Helping

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.161, Multnomah

I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.

Life Lesson, Suffering, Depth

God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him.

Children, Mean, Age

John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.181, Multnomah

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

Promise, Devil, Favors

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

Grace, Drink, Easier

God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.

Worst, Thousand

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

Your Side, Christian Inspirational, Together

If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.

Tasks, Ifs, Sufficient

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.

People, Joy, Heaven

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

Tunnels, Way Forward, Waiting

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

Wonder, Ends, Capacity

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

Christian, Easter, Pain

The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.

And Love, Spirit, Knows

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.148, Multnomah

We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody

Love, Knows, Meant To Be

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.

Mean, Greatness, Looks

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