Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise. — John Piper Copy Share Image
We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. — John Piper Copy Share Image
All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified.… — 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 Copy Share Image
To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling… — John Piper 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
So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys… — John Piper Copy Share Image
To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference… — John Piper 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
“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
