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Love Quotes by John Piper

75 Love quotes by John Piper

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Love that enthralls the beloved with the greatest joy is described as a glimpse of God's glory. The quotes also stress that true love may require laying down life, that truth should lead to love, and that loving God with the mind engages the whole self. They connect passion, sacrifice, and obedience.

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“You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.”

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If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

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I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.

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Your mind was made to know and love God.

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“And because his love for you never had a beginning, it can have no end.”

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“Fasting means love for God—hunger for God.”

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We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody

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To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.

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“Jesus’s solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God.”

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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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“There never has been a greater act of love than that Jesus laid down his life to save sinners (John 15:13; Rom. 5:6-8).”

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“Less extreme is the simple costliness in time and convenience and money and effort to replace excessive and addictive leisure with acts…

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“If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for…

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Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical…

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Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy…

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I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting…

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Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying…

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“Now comes the really amazing part. What is offered to the world, to everyone who hears the gospel, is not a love…

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If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not…

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“Genuine love is the glad effort to make others glad in God forever. Genuine love is being willing to suffer and die…

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The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their…

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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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The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with…

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Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for…

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“God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn’t…

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The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what…

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Love is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is…

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“The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being fought along the line…

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Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling…

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Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our…

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Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keepin g love between Christ and his church. Knowing…

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“The only life I have left to live is future life. The past is not in my hands to offer or alter.…

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“Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have a love for the lost? This is a term we use as…

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Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

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Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church

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God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.

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“Are you able—theologically, personally, and resource-wise—to be harmoniously, sweetly, and deeply in love with Jesus together in marriage?”

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The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

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I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

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“Hold your possessions so loosely that when they are lost in the sacrifices of love, your confidence in a supreme Treasure in…

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Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity…

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