There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus. — John Piper Heaven Copy Share Image
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
“Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue...” — John Piper Christian Copy Share Image
“Christians do not just go to work. They go to work "with God". They do not just do a job. They do… — John Piper Christian 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 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 mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our… — John Piper Faith Copy Share Image
“Racial and ethnic segragtion is a gospel issue! Cephas' fear and wihdrawal from fellowship across ethnic lines was "not in step with… — John Piper Christianity Copy Share Image
The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking… — John Piper Barriers Copy Share Image
I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man.… — John Piper Art of life 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 Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, Christian Hedonists are persuaded with Edwards that the only affections that magnify God's value are those that come from… — John Piper Christianity Copy Share Image
“This was Andrew Murray’s judgment a hundred years ago: As we seek to find out why, with such millions of Christians, the… — John Piper Christianity Copy Share Image
When I pray for revival I pray first for the most radical thing: The utter devotion and allegiance of your hearts to… — John Piper Allegiance 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
“R.C. Sproul has written that "we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization." As… — John Piper Fundamentalism Copy Share Image
“Thus, when Paul says, "Praise the Lord all you nations, and let all the peoples extol him" (Rom. 15:11), he is saying… — John Piper Admiration Copy Share Image
“Listen, self: If God is for you, who can be against you? He who did not spare his own Son but gave… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and… — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction… — John Piper 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
