God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die. — John Piper Copy Share Image
God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people. — John Piper Copy Share Image
God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“God created the world to exhibit the fullness of His glory in the God-centered joy of His people.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more… — John Piper Copy Share Image
God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The great old catechism asks, “What is the chief end of man?” and answers, “Man’s chief end is to glorify God and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because… — John Piper Copy Share Image
God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Lukewarm affection for God gives the impression that he is moderately pleasing. He is not moderately pleasing. He is infinitely pleasing. If… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God,… — 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
Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid? — John Piper Copy Share Image
Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by… — John Piper Copy Share Image
God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those whose “god is their belly” (Philippi- ans 3:19).” — John Piper Copy Share Image
O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant. — John Piper Copy Share Image
You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“God is our supreme pleasure. We prefer above all else to know him and see him and be with him and be… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads,… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal -… — John Piper Copy Share Image
When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images… — John Piper Copy Share Image
God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God… — 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