God Quotes by John Piper

God tests His people through hardship.

— John Piper

Life is in God's hand.

— John Piper

God without Christ is no God.

— John Piper

“Not to enjoy God is to dishonor Him.”

— John Piper

Your mind was made to know and love God.

— John Piper

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

— John Piper

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

— John Piper

If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.

— John Piper

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.

— John Piper

“God designed human fatherhood to be a portrait of himself.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.

— John Piper

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

— John Piper

I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my…

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all…

— John Piper

“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

“Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.”

— John Piper

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

— John Piper

God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

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

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can…

— John Piper

“God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in…

— John Piper

I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible…

— John Piper

God in eternity looked upon me forseeing my faultness, my pride, my sin and said 'I want that man in my family,…

— John Piper

“The domestication of God is a curse on preaching in our day. We need to recover reality and the language of majesty…

— John Piper

What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death.…

— John Piper

“In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount…

— John Piper

“The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of decree." God's "will…

— John Piper

“The charge of blasphemy is loaded. The point is to pack a wallop behind the charge that in our worship services God…

— John Piper

“. . . the only legitimate reason that kingship is not attractive to us is because in this age and this world…

— John Piper

All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the…

— John Piper

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people…

— John Piper

“Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions…

— John Piper

“The supremacy of God in all things is the great reward we long for in fasting. His supremacy in our own affections…

— John Piper

“Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened. It is not our prosperity but our…

— John Piper

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

— John Piper

“God is most glorified when you are most satisfied in Him.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper