John Piper Quotes about Suffering

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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

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.

John Piper

Life Lesson, Suffering, Depth

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

John Piper

Christian, Suffering, Contentment

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

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

John Piper

Suffering, Inevitable, Deserve

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

John Piper

Jesus, Suffering, Pleasure

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.

John Piper

Suffering, Weakness, Purpose

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.

John Piper

Evil, Suffering, World

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

John Piper

Joy, Suffering, Path

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.287, Multnomah

We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.

John Piper

Suffering, Cherish, Christ