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John Piper Quotes - Page 7

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We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding

We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.

Self Esteem, Healing, Soul

God took the record of all your sins-all your sexual failures-that made you a debtor to wrath, and instead of holding them up in front of your face and using them as the warrant to send you to hell, he put them in the palm of his Son’s hand and nailed them to the cross.

Son, Hands, Wrath

Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything.

Beautiful, Spirit, Glory

If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

Passion, Unifying, Satisfying

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

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

World, Behinds, Haul

When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.

Jesus, Heart, Grace

Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the canvas of our lives by the Master Artist who certified his skill, his power, and his love in the Masterpiece of Calvary. If you doubt His skill in painting your life - look at the Calvary

Christian, Believe, Artist

If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.

Perfection, Heaven, Holy

When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.

Jesus, Believe, Unions

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

Broken, Grace, Trials

The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.

Invincible, Sovereignty, Sovereignty Of God

John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.64, SPCK

One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.

Discovery, Important, Ministry

John Piper (1997). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, Multnomah Pub

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

Christian, Goal, Church

John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.35, Baker Academic

Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

Doctors, Medicine, Nurse

You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

Differences, People, World

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.

God, Eagles, Wings

Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

Feelings, Worship

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.88, Multnomah

Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.

America, Taught, Aliens

Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ.

Christian, Joy, Style

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

Falling In Love, Doe, Failing

We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.

Heart, Free Gifts, Buying Things

The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

Christian, Keys, People

The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.

Children, Father, Winning

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.

Husband, Responsibility, Home

John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.56, SPCK

Only the #‎ gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.

Pride, Two, Increase

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