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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.

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Worst, Thousand

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Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

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Son, Wrath, God Love

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Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

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Sleep, Thinking, Bed

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The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.

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And Love, Spirit, Knows

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.148, Multnomah

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Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

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Christian, Easter, Pain

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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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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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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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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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Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

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Life Is Too Short, Waste, Painful

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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.

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Children, Mean, Age

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

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Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's eyes. Everytime someone forsakes God for the world, gets angry at God when part of the world is taken away from them, they highlight the world as valuable... and everytime someone stays with God, when the world is taken away, and praises God, they highlight the value and glory of God.

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Faith, Religious, Taken

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But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

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Christian, Inspiration, Passion

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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 growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.

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Life Lesson, Suffering, Depth

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