John Piper Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

  John Piper

  Depression, Waiting, Darkness

• Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.

  John Piper

  Running, Long, Waiting

• A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

  John Piper

  Running, Heart, Waiting

• We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

  John Piper

  Waiting, Made, Righteous

• God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.

  John Piper

  Waiting, Aim, Wait For Him

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.170, Multnomah

• Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.

  John Piper

  Father, Love You, Compassion

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.61, Baker Academic

• Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

  John Piper

  Tunnels, Way Forward, Waiting

• When it comes to killing my sin, I don't wait for the miracle, I act the miracle.

  John Piper

  Waiting, Miracle, Sin

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