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Heart Quotes by John Piper

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Piper writes that the deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy God's glory, and that sin springs from a heart unsatisfied with Him. He stresses that true joy in God is not an extra feeling but a necessary part of a faithful heart. He also links a pure heart with the ability to see God.

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Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

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The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.

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When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.

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The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

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

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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 deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

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Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.

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You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those…

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From eternity to eternity, the beauty of God is pervasive and practical. Ask him to open the eyes of your heart (Ephesians…

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The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened…

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Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and…

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We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We…

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Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts…

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The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where…

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At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate…

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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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Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, 'Heart, who do you think you…

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Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money…

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If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us…

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The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling…

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So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is…

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Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of…

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A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will…

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“Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a…

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Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was…

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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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Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

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It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

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

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God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.

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Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller…

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The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and…

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Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because…

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Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express…

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I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the…

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If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and…

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'Worship' is the term we use to cover all the acts of the heart and mind and body that intentionally express the…

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The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but…

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Worship is what we were created for. This is the final end of all existence-the worship of God. God created the universe…

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