John Piper Quotes About Worship

Quotes about: Worship

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

  John Piper

  Christian, Goal, Church

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

• 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.

  John Piper

  Soccer, Morning, Kids

• There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.

  John Piper

  Passion, Worship, Draws

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.62, Baker Academic

• Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was created for the glory of Christ. Which means that bread magnifies Christ in two ways: by being eaten with gratitude for his goodness, and by being forfeited out of hunger for God himself. When we eat, we taste the emblem of our heavenly food—the Bread of Life. And when we fast we say, “I love the Reality above the emblem.” In the heart of the saint both eating and fasting are worship. Both magnify Christ.

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Heart, Mean

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.23, SPCK

• The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Heart, Feelings

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.86, Multnomah

• Worship is what we were created for. This is the final end of all existence-the worship of God. God created the universe so that it would display the worth of His glory. And He created us so that we would see this glory and reflect it by knowing and loving it-with all our heart and soul and mind and strength. The church needs to build a common vision of what worship is and what she is gathering to do on Sunday morning and scattering to do on Monday morning.

  John Piper

  Monday, Morning, Heart

• 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

• 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.

  John Piper

  Christian, Joy, Style

• All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.

  John Piper

  Moving, Mean, Son

• Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

  John Piper

  Promise, Devil, Favors

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

  John Piper

  Worship, Pleasure, Belittle

• Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Reflecting Back, Radiance

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.84, Multnomah

• It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

  John Piper

  Trying, Arrogant, Worship

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.18, Multnomah

• Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

  John Piper

  Unhappy, Delight, Worship

• God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

  John Piper

  Worship, Gods Will, Known

• Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?

  John Piper

  Son, Cost, Worship

• Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.

  John Piper

  Sports, Jobs, Heart

• So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.

  John Piper

  Taken, Heart, Sunday

• Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.

  John Piper

  Heart, Reflecting Back, Done

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.92, Multnomah

• Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

  John Piper

  Inspiring, Music, Christian

• The inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer - family, career, retirement, fame, food, friends. The essence of worship is experiencing Christ as gain. Or to use words that we love to use around here: it is savoring Christ, treasuring Christ, being satisfied with Christ.

  John Piper

  Retirement, Essence, Careers

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.261, B&H Publishing Group

• True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.

  John Piper

  Strong, Biblical, Deep Love

• Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

  John Piper

  Causes, Worship, Capacity

• Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

  John Piper

  Feelings, Worship

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

• 'Worship' is the term we use to cover all the acts of the heart and mind and body that intentionally express the infinite worth of God. This is what we were created for, as God says in Isaiah 43:7, Everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory. That means that we were all created for the purpose of expressing the infinite worth of God's glory. We were created to worship.

  John Piper

  Heart, Mean, Names

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