John Piper Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

  John Piper

  Giving, Grace, Delight

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.196, Multnomah

• The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.

  John Piper

  Valentines Day, Son, Loss

• God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom of Christ advances in the world. Prayer gives us the significance of front-line forces, and gives God the glory of a limitless Provider. The one who gives the power gets the glory. Thus prayer safeguards the supremacy of God in missions while linking us with endless grace for every need.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Giving, Grace

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.65, Baker Academic

• Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.

  John Piper

  Giving, Christ

• We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Past, Giving

• Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.

  John Piper

  Encouragement, Taken, Giving

• The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Giving, Joy

  John Piper (2009). “Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.407, Multnomah

• We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.

  John Piper

  Heart, Free Gifts, Buying Things

• John's baptism...was a radical act of individual commitment to belong to the true people of God, based on personal confession and repentance... This is one of the main reasons that I do not believe in baptizing infants, who cannot make this personal commitment or confession or repentance. John's baptism was an assault on the very assumptions that give rise to much infant baptism.

  John Piper

  Believe, Commitment, People

• The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.

  John Piper

  Christian, Giving, Church

• Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.

  John Piper

  Home, Giving, Christ

• So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.

  John Piper

  Moving, Giving, Joy

• Giving is a way of having what you need.

  John Piper

  Giving, Needs, Way

• Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

  John Piper

  Views, Giving, Promise

• Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

  John Piper

  Heart, Giving, Soul

• The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us, where will we turn? We turn to Christ. We turn to the suffering and death of Christ—the blood of Christ. This is the only cleansing agent in the universe that can give the conscience relief in life and peace in death.

  John Piper

  Blood, Suffering And Death, Giving

• The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

  John Piper

  Prayer, Giving Up, Order

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.77, B&H Publishing Group

• From eternity to eternity, the beauty of God is pervasive and practical. Ask him to open the eyes of your heart (Ephesians 1:18). Give your life to this quest - seeing and savoring more and more of the happifying beauty of God.

  John Piper

  Heart, Eye, Giving

• You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

  John Piper

  Giving, Over You, Authority

• Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Teaching, Giving

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.88, SPCK

• We give glory to God when we trust him to do what he has promised to do-especially when all human possibilities are exhausted. Faith glorifies God. That is why God planned for faith to be the way we are justified.

  John Piper

  Giving, Way, Exhausted

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