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Christ Quotes by John Piper

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John Piper urges a single, God‑centered passion that drives a life devoted to Christ. He stresses that true worship cherishes Christ above family, career, or fame, and that following Christ means embracing sacrifice and suffering. He also warns against waiting for a feeling before sharing Christ with others.

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God without Christ is no God.

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All heroes are shadows of Christ

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Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

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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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It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.

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Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be…

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My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.

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“Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought.”

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

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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.

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Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

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Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God…

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Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That…

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My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one…

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This assumes that the glory of Christ is our highest treasure, not health, wealth, family or even life. So preaching must continually…

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Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the…

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Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.

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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…

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The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the…

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Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying…

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Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of…

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A saving knowledge of Christ crucified and risen is not the mere result of right reasoning about historical facts. It is the…

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The inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer -…

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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…

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Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be…

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God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith,…

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Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and…

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Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding…

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Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness…

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There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for my…

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Every Christian who struggles with depression struggles to keep their hope clear. There is nothing wrong with the object of their hope…

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Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was…

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“Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a…

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Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm…

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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.…

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You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

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The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

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CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

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Every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.

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May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.

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“Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is…

Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity…

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Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)