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John Piper Quotes - Page 5

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Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

Tragedy, Christ, Wasted Life

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

Love Is, Joy, Needs

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.123, Multnomah

Worship is what we were created for. This is the final end of all existence-the worship of God. God created the universe so that it would display the worth of His glory. And He created us so that we would see this glory and reflect it by knowing and loving it-with all our heart and soul and mind and strength. The church needs to build a common vision of what worship is and what she is gathering to do on Sunday morning and scattering to do on Monday morning.

Monday, Morning, Heart

God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

Moving, People, Misery

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

Believe, Mean, Authority

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

Son, Wrath, God Love

The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing--God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.

Believe, Causes, Persevere

God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

Dream, Passion, Thinking

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

What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

Voice, Ears, Privilege

Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.

Ears, Faithfulness, Rumble

The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

Mental Health, Highest

The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.

Wings, Kind, Lord

To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

Christian, Moving, Comfort

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion.

Christian, Inspiration, Passion

Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

Mirrors, Dependability

John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.189, Multnomah

The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no condemnation for those who believe, but only everlasting joy.

Jesus, Believe, Rose

Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.

Jesus, Church, Doe

John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.51, SPCK

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

Perfection, Redemption, Realizing

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

Heaven, Criticism, Rewards

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

Parent, Grace, Bitterness

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

Riches, Affection, Danger

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

Christian, Suffering, Contentment

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.265, Multnomah

Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken. The power of sin is the power of deceit. Sin has power through promising a false future. In temptation sin comes to us and says: "The future with God on his narrow way is hard and unhappy, but the way I promise is pleasant and satisfying." The power of sin is in the power of this lie.

Lying, Fall, Broken

The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

Jesus, Debt, Happened

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

Hands, Design, Holiness

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