God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites. — John Piper Hypocrite Copy Share Image
“We may think we are centering our lives on God when we are really making Him a means to self-esteem.” — John Piper Self esteem Copy Share Image
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray — John Piper Giving Copy Share Image
Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We are not saved from sin and changed into righteousness for the sake of pride but for the sake of praise. — John Piper Faith Copy Share Image
“Nothing sobers a wandering philosophical imagination like the thought of having a wife and children to support.” — John Piper Children Copy Share Image
“Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.” — John Piper Christianity Copy Share Image
We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical.… — John Piper Culture Copy Share Image
“It’s a season for cherishing and worshiping this characteristic of God—that he is a searching and saving God, that he is a… — John Piper Advent Copy Share Image
“Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the… — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
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… — John Piper Copy Share Image
If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us… — John Piper Beauty Copy Share Image
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because… — John Piper Christianity 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
“Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing but God himself is… — John Piper Holy spirit Copy Share Image
“The Roman Emperor Julian, writing in the fourth century, regretted the progress of Christianity because it pulled people away from the Roman… — John Piper Christian faith Copy Share Image
“The only life I have left to live is future life. The past is not in my hands to offer or alter.… — John Piper Faith and love Copy Share Image
Very soon the shadow will give way to Reality. The partial will pass into the Perfect. The foretaste will lead to the… — John Piper Christian Copy Share Image
We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“He said it even more plainly in Romans 14:23, “Whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.” The absence of faith gives… — John Piper Faith 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 Book Copy Share Image
“Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and less radical. It is humanly manageable to make decisions of… — John Piper Affections Copy Share Image
I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid? — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God. — John Piper Generous Copy Share Image
“Nothing shows the direction of the deep winds of the soul like the demand for radical, sin-destroying, Christ-exalting joy in God.” — John Piper Spirituality Copy Share Image
Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises — John Piper Copy Share Image
Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the… — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world. — John Piper Christian Copy Share Image
The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the… — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
“People give way to sexual sin because they don’t have fullness of joy and gladness in Jesus.” — John Piper Gladness Copy Share Image
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“If we are Christ’s, then what befalls us is for His glory and for our good, whether it is caused by enzymes… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him. — John Piper Arrogant Copy Share Image
God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming. — John Piper Copy Share Image
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