“The sun of God's glory was made to shine at the center of the solar system of our soul. And when it… — John Piper Life Copy Share Image
Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will… — John Piper Beauty Copy Share Image
“Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.” — John Piper Art Copy Share Image
“We humans have never had the resources in ourselves to love each other well across ethnic lines. There is too much selfishness… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts. — 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 Aliens Copy Share Image
“If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for… — John Piper Boldness Copy Share Image
Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the… — John Piper Artist Copy Share Image
As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing… — John Piper Actions Copy Share Image
Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The Bible itself shows that our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God’s infinite worth and beauty would be exalted… — John Piper Beauty Copy Share Image
Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money… — John Piper Family Copy Share Image
The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves… — John Piper Achievement 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
Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is… — John Piper Beloved Copy Share Image
“Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would… — John Piper Desire Copy Share Image
“God and God alone is the final, ultimate goal of our quest. All that God is for us in Jesus is the… — John Piper Adventure Copy Share Image
“...all the evils in the world come not because our desires for happiness are too strong, but because they are so weak… — John Piper Evil Copy Share Image
To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Banish professionalism from our midst, Oh God, an din its place put passionate prayer, poverty of spirit, hunger for God, rigorous study… — John Piper Education Copy Share Image
My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the… — John Piper America Copy Share Image
“Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there is any universal… — John Piper Humble Copy Share Image
Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take. — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging. — John Piper Copy Share Image
If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do. — John Piper Copper Copy Share Image
God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold.… — John Piper Copper Copy Share Image
No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.” — John Piper Bible Copy Share Image
Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus. — John Piper Children Copy Share Image
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here. — John Piper Aliens Copy Share Image
Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our… — John Piper Patience Copy Share Image
There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and… — John Piper Beauty Copy Share Image
If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to… — John Piper Grace Copy Share Image
“Jesus calls for violence against our own lust because he loves our true and lasting joy.” — John Piper Jesus Copy Share Image
Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in… — John Piper Initiative Copy Share Image
