The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life. — John Piper Copy Share Image
I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today. — John Piper Copy Share Image
One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“That is not just the story of Israel. It's the story of humanity. It's the story of my life and your life.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“There never has been a greater act of love than that Jesus laid down his life to save sinners (John 15:13; Rom. 5:6-8).” — John Piper Copy Share Image
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take. — 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 inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer -… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The entire life and work of Jesus is one great argument why we should listen to his word. Page after page of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
This assumes that the glory of Christ is our highest treasure, not health, wealth, family or even life. So preaching must continually… — 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
“The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not… — 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
Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding… — John Piper Copy Share Image
You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you… — 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 only life I have left to live is future life. The past is not in my hands to offer or alter.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The sins that should have brought condemnation on us, God laid on Jesus. God’s love planned an amazing exchange: Jesus endured what… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“When everything in life is stripped away except God, and we trust him more because of it, this is gain, and he… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Normal Christian life is a process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. It is… — 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
The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said! — John Piper Copy Share Image
If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish… — John Piper Copy Share Image
God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).” — 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
