Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples. — 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
“Jesus’s solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God.” — john piper Copy Share Image
Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Love is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Jesus came into the world with good news, not bad news. He does not call us to a willpower religion that feels… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be… — John Piper Copy Share Image
What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling… — 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
“Oh, what a grand design! to make our joy the echo of your excellence. To make our pleasure proof that you now… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after he… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for my… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“In obedience to God’s Word we should fight to walk in the paths where he has promised his blessings. But when and… — 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
“The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the path… — John Piper Copy Share Image
In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“For Jesus, the demand for joy is a way to live with suffering and to outlast suffering.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Enjoyment of Jesus is not like icing on the cake; it’s like powder in the shell.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Enjoying and displaying are both crucial. The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all… — 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
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![“The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever." Fullness of joy and eternal joy cannot be improved. Nothing is fuller than full, and nothing is…” quote by John Piper](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/16f/john-piper-255_eternity_the-greatest-joy-is-joy-in-god-this-is-p_278551.png)
