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• It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.

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  Fighting

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• To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.

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  God Love, Truth Love

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.106, Multnomah

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• The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

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  Riches, Affection, Danger

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• I don’t know how people pray who don’t believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they’re possible I’ll do them.

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  Believe, People, Want

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• If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.

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  Loving Someone, Acting, Feels

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• Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.

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  Father, Love You, Compassion

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.61, Baker Academic

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• Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

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  Heaven, Criticism, Rewards

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• Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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  Flower, Joy, Born

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

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• The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.

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  Invincible, Sovereignty, Sovereignty Of God

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.64, SPCK

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• If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.

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  Perfection, Heaven, Holy

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• To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

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  Christian, Moving, Comfort

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• God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.

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  God, Eagles, Wings

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• God tests His people through hardship.

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  People, Hardship, Tests

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• Giving is a way of having what you need.

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  Giving, Needs, Way

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

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  Giving, Over You, Authority

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• Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

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  Book, People, Sometimes

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.13, Multnomah

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• The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

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  Jesus, Debt, Happened

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• Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

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  Christian, Goal, Church

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

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• Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

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  Mirrors, Dependability

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.189, 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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• Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

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  Christian, Heart, Steel

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• When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.

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  Jesus, Believe, Unions

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• God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.

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  Would Be, Made

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• The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.

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  Jesus, Race, Ethnicity

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• We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

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  Worship, Pleasure, Belittle

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