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• I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

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  Sacrifice, Screw Ups, Longing

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.251, Multnomah

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• Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

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  Accomplishment, Needs, World

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• I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.

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  Baptism, Doctrine, Primaries

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.155, B&H Publishing Group

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• No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

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  Missionary, Doe, Magnificence

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

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• You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

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  Christian, People, Threatening

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• My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

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  Mother, Gasoline, Mouths

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• We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.

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  People, Lovers, Lost

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• Intensity is all that matters in painting.

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  Matter, Painting, Intensity

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• God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

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  Passion, Mean, Would Be

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• We are far too easily pleased.

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  John Piper (1979). “'Love Your Enemies': Jesus' Love Command in the Synoptic Gospels and in the Early Christian Paraenesis”, p.166, CUP Archive

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• The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

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  Law, Creative

  Foreword by John Piper to Enid Verity's book "Colour", 1967.

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• A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

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  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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• 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.

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  Moving, Giving, Joy

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• Adoption is the visible Gospel.

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  Adoption, Visible

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• We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

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  Christmas, Meaningful, Needs

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• Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.

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  Men, Worship, Missions

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

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• The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

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  Reality, Want, Morality

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• We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

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  Hypocrite, Names, Trying

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.23, Multnomah

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• The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.

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  Joy, Supremacy, Ends

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• According to the spirit of this age, the ultimate sin is no longer the failure to honor and thank God but the failure to esteem oneself. Self-abasement, not God-abasement, is the evil. And the cry of deliverance is not "O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me?" but "O worthy man that I am, would that I could only see it better"!

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  Self Esteem, Men, Evil

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• Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.

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  Jesus, Doe, Spirit

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• The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

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  Doe, Christ, Glory

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• One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. "Abortion" is cloaked child-killing

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  Children, Reality, People

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• Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

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  Fire, Failing, Wave

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• Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.

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  Darkness, Betrayed, Hours

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