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Religion Quotes by John Piper

101 Religion quotes by John Piper

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The Gospel is not a theory; it is an event that happened in history. Piper writes that the call of Christ asks us to live a life of sacrifice, loss, and suffering, hoping for resurrection. He also reminds us that reading the Bible needs careful interpretation to avoid false conclusions and to keep the message clear.

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“...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.”

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To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

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“The faith that justifies gives rise to lives of obedience—not perfection, but growing holiness.”

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When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news

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Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.

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If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.

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A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

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Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions

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Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

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Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us,…

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Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

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

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The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe…

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The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of…

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“Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to…

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Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.

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A saving knowledge of Christ crucified and risen is not the mere result of right reasoning about historical facts. It is the…

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“O Father, touch us with fresh faith that we might believe the incredible. The very pain of Christ that makes us despair…

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John's baptism...was a radical act of individual commitment to belong to the true people of God, based on personal confession and repentance...…

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“Jesus came into the world with good news, not bad news. He does not call us to a willpower religion that feels…

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“The Bible itself shows that our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God’s infinite worth and beauty would be exalted…

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The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves…

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The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally…

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Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and…

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“Paul says that one weapon in this ongoing fight of faith is the practice of “disciplining” the body. He was not unaware…

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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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Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where…

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“Perseverance Here is a key to great earnestness in preaching. If you really believe that “[those who endure] to the end will…

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“The teaching that diminishes the urgency for reaching all the unreached peoples of the world with the only news that can save…

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“Therefore, we read the Bible selectively. We pick a text here and there to fit our felt needs. This is like a…

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Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be…

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“Think and mull and ponder and chew until you see God the way they see God—namely, as precious and valuable and beautiful…

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“There is something that assaults God even more directly. It is the subtle sense that grows in us, usually unconsciously, that the…

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“Part of what we pick up in looking at Jesus in the gospel is a way of viewing the whole world. That…

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“The cross witnesses to the infinite worth of God and the infinite outrage of sin.”

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Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

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The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

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Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

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For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

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

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“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…

What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The…

Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory…

“If you hold a grudge, you doubt the Judge.”

Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.

“Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is…

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

“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…

“Not to aim to show God is not to love, bc God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else…

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