Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. J
  4. John Piper
  5. Children

John Piper Quotes about Children

All John Piper Quotes Abortion Adoption Affection Age Baptism Children quotes 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
If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

John Piper
Children, Comfort, Wealth

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.

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

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.

John Piper
Children, Father, Winning

Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

John Piper
Jesus, Children, Followers
John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.93, SPCK

There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

John Piper
Christian, Kings, Children

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keepin g love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of marital success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.

John Piper
Sex, Children, Love Is

You have to decide what those issues are for you. What do you think disqualifies a person from holding public office? I believe that the endorsement of the right to kill unborn children disqualifies a person from any position of public office. It's simply the same as saying that the endorsement of racism, fraud, or bribery, would disqualify him - except that child-killing is more serious than those.

John Piper
Children, Believe, Thinking
John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.280, Multnomah

The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess.

John Piper
Falling In Love, Jobs, Children

The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.

John Piper
Jesus, Children, Taken

One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. "Abortion" is cloaked child-killing

John Piper
Children, Reality, People

It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.

John Piper
Sex, Children, Abortion

You May Also Like: