“God created the world to exhibit the fullness of His glory in the God-centered joy of His people.” — 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
“Enjoying and displaying are both crucial. The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all… — 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
Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The purpose of the Lord's Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and… — 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
Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Jesus came into the world with good news, not bad news. He does not call us to a willpower religion that feels… — 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
The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Jesus’s solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, 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
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 Copy Share Image
The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to… — 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
“The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one… — 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
Love is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death.… — 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