In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy. — 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
Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be… — 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
Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the… — 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
Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, 'Heart, who do you think you… — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally… — 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 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
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
“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
