Praise Quotes by John Piper

10 Praise quotes by John Piper

Piper writes praise as a response to divine grace, and these short excerpts let his pastoral voice shine. Expect a blend of scriptural grounding and earnest devotion.

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You can't praise what you don't prize.

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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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In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

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We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

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We are not saved from sin and changed into righteousness for the sake of pride but for the sake of praise.

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Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

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Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that…

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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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Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's…

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“Thus, when Paul says, "Praise the Lord all you nations, and let all the peoples extol him" (Rom. 15:11), he is saying…

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Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory…

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“If you hold a grudge, you doubt the Judge.”

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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)

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