“Enjoyment of Jesus is not like icing on the cake; it’s like powder in the shell.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“For Jesus, the demand for joy is a way to live with suffering and to outlast suffering.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. — John Piper Copy Share Image
We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples. — John Piper Copy Share Image
We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as… — 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
“The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a… — John Piper Copy Share Image
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your… — 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
“The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and rose again, eternally triumphant over all… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the… — 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
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
“In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will be our delight, our… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Indeed the devil thinks more true thoughts about God in one day than a saint does in a lifetime, and God is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“In obedience to God’s Word we should fight to walk in the paths where he has promised his blessings. But when and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for my… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after he… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Oh, what a grand design! to make our joy the echo of your excellence. To make our pleasure proof that you now… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“God created me---and you---to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion----namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the path… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy. — John Piper Copy Share Image
In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“God created the world to exhibit the fullness of His glory in the God-centered joy of His people.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts. — John Piper Copy Share Image
All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church. — 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
![“The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever." Fullness of joy and eternal joy cannot be improved. Nothing is fuller than full, and nothing is…” quote by John Piper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/16f/john-piper-255_eternity_the-greatest-joy-is-joy-in-god-this-is-p_278551.jpg)
