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People Quotes by John Piper

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John Piper describes love as a joy that lifts the beloved and reflects God's glory, and he warns that many people only want God to serve their own needs. He reminds us that we are the salt of the earth, meant to serve others, not ourselves, and that true happiness comes from helping people find God.

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Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.

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Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.

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Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

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God tests His people through hardship.

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Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

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We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.

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Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

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Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in…

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You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

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The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.

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God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.

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Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

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The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.

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God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.…

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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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The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand…

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I don’t know how people pray who don’t believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things…

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Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying…

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Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic…

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Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same…

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What is God looking for in the world? Assistants? No. The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. It is a help-available ad.…

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So the main question is not, Which humans brought about the death of Jesus but, What did the death of Jesus bring…

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One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it…

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Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be…

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God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people…

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Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy…

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All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the…

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John's baptism...was a radical act of individual commitment to belong to the true people of God, based on personal confession and repentance...…

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Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small.…

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It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like…

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People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

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God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

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The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

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There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.

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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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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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Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will…

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When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images…

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O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution…

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The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and…

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Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity…

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“Not to aim to show God is not to love, bc God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else…

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