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Life Quotes by John Piper

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John Piper notes that many people feel God’s absence as normal, yet he urges a single, great passion for reality that frees us from small dreams. He calls us to a God‑centered life that restores and renews us daily. He also reminds us that sin is deadly, and yielding to it is the real danger.

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Life is in God's hand.

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Don't coast through life without a passion.

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I owe my life and hope to the gospel.

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Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

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Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

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“He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.”

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“Now we see that every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.”

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“A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.”

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

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It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

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

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We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

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At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line…

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“In dying he satisfied the claims of sin; and in living he satisfies the claims of God.”

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One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

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“Saying that life is war does not mean that we make war on people, but on sin, especially our own.”

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Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

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Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

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Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

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I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the…

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God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted…

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“The entire life and work of Jesus is one great argument why we should listen to his word. Page after page of…

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Even on days when every cinder in our soul feels cold, if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out…

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

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

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

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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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The formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of God, and it is not merely a…

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“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…

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“Christian Hedonism is a philosophy of life built on the following five convictions: The longing to be happy is a universal human…

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“Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment…

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“The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after he…

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“When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not…

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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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How do you get from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect it?"…

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“And seek first in all you do to make known His kingship over your life.”

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The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.

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In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

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The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

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