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Christian Quotes by John Piper

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A God‑centered theology drives a missionary focus, urging believers to live by faith and walk by the Spirit. The quotes describe Christian life as a restless restoration, where joy shifts and sin must be spotted and killed before it grows. Suffering is framed as a path to deeper contentment in God rather than worldly pleasure.

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The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.

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Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

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A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

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

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“He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.”

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Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

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Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

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The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

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Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

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“A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know…

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“If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal…

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

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You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

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“The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension…

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One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

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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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The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death…

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The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand…

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Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the…

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There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in…

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It is a precious thing beyond all words,especially in the hour of death, that we have a God whose nature is such…

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The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to…

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Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life…

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Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us…

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“Therefore, the task of all Christian scholarship- not just biblical studies- is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to…

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A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the…

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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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Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm…

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The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question…

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Every Christian who struggles with depression struggles to keep their hope clear. There is nothing wrong with the object of their hope…

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My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the…

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Very soon the shadow will give way to Reality. The partial will pass into the Perfect. The foretaste will lead to the…

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Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

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The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.

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There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

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What women rightly long for is spiritual and moral initiative from a man, not spiritual and moral domination.

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Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

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CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

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“Christian, be a Christian: live by faith; walk by the Spirit; serve in the strength that God supplies.”

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“Therefore everything that you enjoy in Christ - as a Christian, as a person who trusts Christ - is owing to the…

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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…

God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom of Christ…

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