Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead. — John Piper Copy Share Image
You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It is a precious thing beyond all words,especially in the hour of death, that we have a God whose nature is such… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. Thats… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being fought along the line… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Therefore, the task of all Christian scholarship- not just biblical studies- is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Very soon the shadow will give way to Reality. The partial will pass into the Perfect. The foretaste will lead to the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Every Christian who struggles with depression struggles to keep their hope clear. There is nothing wrong with the object of their hope… — John Piper Copy Share Image
My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be… — John Piper Copy Share Image
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Normal Christian life is a process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. It is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue...” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Christians do not just go to work. They go to work "with God". They do not just do a job. They do… — John Piper Copy Share Image
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Even in the miserable guilt we feel over our beastlike insensitivity, the glory of God shines. If God were not gloriously desirable, why would… — John Piper Copy Share
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is… — John Piper Copy Share
“The Spirit inspired the Word and therefore He goes where the Word goes. The more of God's Word you know and love, the more… — John Piper Copy Share
Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you… — John Piper Copy Share
“Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and… — John Piper Copy Share
What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The… — John Piper Copy Share
Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory… — John Piper Copy Share
Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here. — John Piper Copy Share
“Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is… — John Piper Copy Share
Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity… — John Piper Copy Share
“job 14:1 man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of troubles "If that isn't your experience now it… — John Piper Copy Share
“Not to aim to show God is not to love, bc God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else… — John Piper Copy Share
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… — John Piper Copy Share
Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16) — John Piper Copy Share
