You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The faith that justifies gives rise to lives of obedience—not perfection, but growing holiness.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel. — John Piper Copy Share Image
There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts. — John Piper Copy Share Image
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue...” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Knowledge about Him will not do. Work for Him will not do. We must have personal, vital fellowship with Him; otherwise, Christianity… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Well, God does not mean for us to be passive. He means for us to fight the fight of faith—the fight for… — John Piper Copy Share Image
What is God looking for in the world? Assistants? No. The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. It is a help-available ad.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal -… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that Christians in the West are being coddled. We suffer little in the name of Christ. Therefore, we… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“When God appoints the gospel of his Son as the universal remedy for the guilt and corruption of mankind, and we diminish… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“God is not looking for people to work for him, so much as he is looking for people ho will let him… — John Piper 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.” — 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 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 Copy Share Image
The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. Thats… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God's gift of himself for our everlasting… — John Piper Copy Share Image
O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“And Christ "will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him."… — John Piper Copy Share Image
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Hold your possessions so loosely that when they are lost in the sacrifices of love, your confidence in a supreme Treasure in… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Normal Christian life is a process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. It is… — John Piper 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
There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ… — John Piper 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Even in the miserable guilt we feel over our beastlike insensitivity, the glory of God shines. If God were not gloriously desirable, why would… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The Spirit inspired the Word and therefore He goes where the Word goes. The more of God's Word you know and love, the more… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“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… — John Piper Copy Share Image
What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The… — 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 the glory… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“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… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Not to aim to show God is not to love, bc God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else… — John Piper Copy Share Image
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… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16) — John Piper Copy Share Image
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