Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The faith that justifies gives rise to lives of obedience—not perfection, but growing holiness.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us,… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and… — 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
When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through… — John Piper Copy Share Image
All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all… — John Piper Copy Share Image
A saving knowledge of Christ crucified and risen is not the mere result of right reasoning about historical facts. It is the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“O Father, touch us with fresh faith that we might believe the incredible. The very pain of Christ that makes us despair… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Perseverance Here is a key to great earnestness in preaching. If you really believe that “[those who endure] to the end will… — 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
“The Bible itself shows that our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God’s infinite worth and beauty would be exalted… — John Piper Copy Share Image
A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The Bible-oriented preacher wants the congregation to know that his words, if they have any abiding worth, are in accord with God’s… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn’t… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Therefore, we read the Bible selectively. We pick a text here and there to fit our felt needs. This is like a… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The teaching that diminishes the urgency for reaching all the unreached peoples of the world with the only news that can save… — 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
“When the glory of God is the treasure of our lives, we will not lay up treasures on earth, but spend them… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Banish professionalism from our midst, Oh God, an din its place put passionate prayer, poverty of spirit, hunger for God, rigorous study… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The world will brin its condemnation. They may even put their sword behind it. But we know that the highest courst has… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“There is something that assaults God even more directly. It is the subtle sense that grows in us, usually unconsciously, that the… — 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 key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue...” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Christian, be a Christian: live by faith; walk by the Spirit; serve in the strength that God supplies.” — 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
![“Perseverance Here is a key to great earnestness in preaching. If you really believe that “[those who endure] to the end will be saved” (Mark 13:13), and that not only the first act of faith but all subsequent, acts of persevering faith are sustained by the Spirit through the Word of God, then…” quote by John Piper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/44a/john-piper-255_faith_perseverance-here-is-a-key-to-great-earn_1980386.jpg)
