John Piper Quotes

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• If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

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  Falling In Love, Greatness, Light

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• In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

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  Different, Circumstances, Situation

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• One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

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  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Use

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• What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin.

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  Greatness, Wrath, Justice Of God

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• My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.

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  Echoes, Feelings, Perception

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• Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Jobs, Biblical

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• Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

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  Christian, Heart, Sin

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.1, Multnomah

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• People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

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  People, Earth, Salt

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• A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ.

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  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

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  God, Christian, Religious

  John Piper (2005). “For Your Joy”

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• One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.

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  Promise, Enemy, Forget

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• Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

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  Foundation, Deeds, Salvation

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.364, Multnomah

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• 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.

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  Children, Comfort, Wealth

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• Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

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  Life Is Precious, Today, Waste

  John Piper (2009). “Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.34, Multnomah

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• Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, 'Heart, who do you think you are to be afraid of the future and nullify the promise of God? No, heart, I will not exalt myself with anxiety. I will humble myself in peace and joy as I trust this precious and great promise of God - He cares for me.'

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  Heart, Humble, Thinking

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• God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.

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  Three, May

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• Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy

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  Prayer, Needs, Helping

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.161, Multnomah

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• Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.

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  Jesus, Church, Doe

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.51, SPCK

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

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  Promise, Devil, Favors

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• Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

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  Grace, Enabling, Sin

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• We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody

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  Love, Knows, Meant To Be

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• The Gospel is not how people get to heaven.
  The Gospel is how people get to God.

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  People, Heaven

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• God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

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  Grace, Drink, Easier

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• We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.

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  Hands, Embrace, Deals

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• The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

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  Found, Endure

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.28, Multnomah

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