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• Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

  John Piper

  Knowing, Secret, Atheism

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

  John Piper

  Three, May

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• The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing--God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.

  John Piper

  Believe, Causes, Persevere

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• God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

  John Piper

  Suicide, Evil, Overcoming

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

  John Piper

  People, Heaven

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• If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not loving, there would be no willingness for his Son to suffer and die. But God is both just and loving. Therefore his love is willing to meet the demands of his justice.

  John Piper

  Son, Love Is, Justice

  John Piper (2005). “For Your Joy”

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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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• Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

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  Pride, Form, Boast

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

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  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

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• Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

  John Piper

  Hands, Design, Holiness

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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.

  John Piper

  Christian, Easter, Pain

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• What is God looking for in the world? Assistants? No.
  The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. It is a help-available ad. God is not looking for people to work for Him but people who let Him work mightily in and through them.

  John Piper

  People, World, Assistants

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.56, B&H Publishing Group

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• The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

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  Heart, Longing, Glory

  John Piper (2016). “A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness”, p.150, SPCK

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• Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.

  John Piper

  Brain, Devoted

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• 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

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• The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

  John Piper

  Our Generation, Leisure Activities, Heaven

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• We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

  John Piper

  Thinking, Joy, Needs

  John Piper @JohnPiper, twitter.com. November 9, 2009.

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• There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

  John Piper

  Christian, Missionary, Three

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad! DVD Study Guide”, p.8, Baker Academic

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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)

  John Piper

  Promise, Devil, Favors

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• The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

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  Believe, Delay, Detours

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.170, Multnomah

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• Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

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  Prayer, Causes, Praying

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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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• 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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• A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

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  Running, Heart, Waiting

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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.

  John Piper

  Christian, Inspiration, Passion

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