Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

John Piper Quotes - Page 6

All Quotes Abortion Adoption Affection Age Baptism Children Christ Christianity Church Compassion Culture Darkness Earth Evil Excellence Failing Falling In Love Feelings Fighting Friday Giving Glory God Grace Gratitude Greatness Heart Heaven Hell Humanity Humility Hurt Husband Inspiration Jesus Joy Mercy Obedience Pain Painting Passion Past Pleasure Praise Prayer Pride Purity Purpose Reality Redemption Risk Running Sacrifice Sanctification Self Esteem Simplicity Sin Son Soul Sovereignty Suffering Sunday Theology Today Tragedy Waiting War Weakness Wealth Worship Writing

Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

Sun, Endless, Nothing New

When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news

Heart, News, Hell

John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.134, B&H Publishing Group

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

Passion, Missionary, Weak

John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.36, Baker Academic

God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

Joy, Killjoy

"How are you doing?" - - - better than I deserve.

Suffering, Inevitable, Deserve

To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.

God Love, Truth Love

John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.106, Multnomah

Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.

Perfect, Lifetime, Pursuit

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

Flower, Joy, Born

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

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

Jesus, Suffering, Pleasure

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

Christian, Heart, Steel

The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.

People, Heaven, Way

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

Worship, Pleasure, Belittle

We give glory to God when we trust him to do what he has promised to do-especially when all human possibilities are exhausted. Faith glorifies God. That is why God planned for faith to be the way we are justified.

Giving, Way, Exhausted

The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Jesus, Giving, Joy

John Piper (2009). “Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.407, Multnomah

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

Self, World, Sin

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

Men, Long, People

John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.6, B&H Publishing Group

Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

Jesus, Real, People

John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.17, SPCK

There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning.

Soccer, Morning, Kids

The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction of our faith, and governed by God for the purifying of our faith... Christ sovereignly accomplishes His loving, purifying purpose, by overruling Satan's destructive attempts. Satan is always aiming to destroy our faith; but Christ magnifies His power in weakness.

Suffering, Weakness, Purpose

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

Book, People, Sometimes

John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.13, Multnomah

The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.

Worship, Intensity, Immensity

It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.

Fighting

God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.

Heart, Names, People

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.48, Multnomah

Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

Prayer, Ministry, Whole

John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.75, B&H Publishing Group

In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

Joy, Believer, Setback

You May Also Like: