John Piper Quotes - Page 8

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• The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

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  Greatness, Self, Joy

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• God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

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  Grace, Wealth, Christianity

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.159, Multnomah

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• If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

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  Passion, Unifying, Satisfying

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• 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.

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  Blood, Suffering And Death, Giving

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• So, you have three possibilities in world missions. You can be a goer, a sender, or disobedient. The Bible does not assume that everyone goes. But it does assume that the ones who do not go care about goers and support goers and pray for goers and hold the rope of the goers.

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  Support, Doe, Three

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• God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.

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  Passion, Names, People

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

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• You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

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  Willing, Ought, Ifs

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• If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!

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  Gratitude, Heart, Echoes

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.214, Multnomah

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• Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

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  Believe, Empowering, Enjoy

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.2, Multnomah

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• The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.

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  Evil, Suffering, World

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• If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.

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  Grace, Gold, Want

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.205, B&H Publishing Group

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• I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.

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  Wrath, Wonder, Mercy

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• The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.

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  Children, Father, Winning

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• It is a myth that man in his natural state is genuinely seeking God. Men do seek God. But they do not seek him for who he is. They seek him in a pinch as one who might preserve them from death or enhance their worldly enjoyments. Apart from conversion, no one comes to the light of God.

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  Men, Light, Might

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• Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

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  Jesus, Children, Followers

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.93, SPCK

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Giving, Grace

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

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• The formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of God, and it is not merely a mechanical process but a work on the analogy of weaving or knitting: "Thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb" (psalm 139:13). The life of the unborn is the knitting of God, and what He is knitting is a human being in His own image, unlike any other creature in the universe... The destruction of conceived human life - whether embryonic, fetal, or viable - is an assault on the unique person-forming work of God.

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  Mother, Unique, Knitting

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• That's who Jesus Christ is. He became the final Priest and the final Sacrifice. Sinless, he did not offer sacrifices for himself. Immortal, he never has to be replaced. Human, he could bear human sins. Therefore he did not offer sacrifices for himself; he offered himself as the final sacrifice. There will never be the need for another. There is one mediator between us and God. One priest. We need no other. Oh, how happy are those who draw near to God through Christ alone.

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  Jesus, Sacrifice, Finals

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• There is no other way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ today, except that we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyles of missionary sacrifice that looks to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth.

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  Live Life, Sacrifice, America

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• Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

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  Christian, Prayer, Vulnerable

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• God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.

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  Names, Redemption, Glory

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• Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

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  Men, Long, People

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.6, B&H Publishing Group

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• The highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display. That is why marriage exists. If you are married, that is why you are married. If you hope to be, that should be your dream.

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  Dream, Church, Covenant

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.16, SPCK

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• Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

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  Unhappy, Delight, Worship

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• This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

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  Friday, Garden, Done

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