Christianity Quotes by John Piper

Your mind was made to know and love God.

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

I owe my life and hope to the gospel.

— John Piper

“Seeing the glory of Jesus Christ in the gospel awakens joy.”

— John Piper

You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.

— John Piper

“Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

Only the #‎ gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.

— John Piper

“the world we live in is a world where only the gospel of Jesus Christ can bring the kind of racial and…

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

— John Piper

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would…

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

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

The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the…

— John Piper

This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about -…

— John Piper

“The entire life and work of Jesus is one great argument why we should listen to his word. Page after page of…

— John Piper

“Now comes the really amazing part. What is offered to the world, to everyone who hears the gospel, is not a love…

— John Piper

“What you and I need is usually not a brand-new teaching. Brand-new truths are probably not truths. What we need are reminders…

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

“Being persuaded that Christ and his promises are factual is not by itself saving faith. That is why some professing Christians will…

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

“God does not mean for us to be passive. He means for us to fight the fight of faith--the fight for joy.…

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

“The world will brin its condemnation. They may even put their sword behind it. But we know that the highest courst has…

— John Piper

“God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the…

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

“The ultimate good of the gospel is seeing and savoring the beauty and value of God. God’s wrath and our sin obstruct…

— John Piper

“If anyone is going to see the gospel as true and good, satanic blindness and natural deadness must be overcome by the…

— John Piper

“I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to…

— John Piper

There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.

— John Piper