Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal. — John Piper Eternal Copy Share Image
Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray. — John Piper Causes Copy Share Image
When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure. — John Piper Display Copy Share Image
Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God . — John Piper Concern Copy Share Image
The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart. — John Piper Fire Copy Share Image
Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ. — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ. — John Piper Able Copy Share Image
God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold.… — John Piper Copper Copy Share Image
Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here. — John Piper Aliens Copy Share Image
Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness. — John Piper Badness Copy Share Image
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior… — John Piper Desiring Copy Share Image
Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus. — John Piper Children Copy Share Image
“One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.” — John Piper Bible Copy Share Image
Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in… — John Piper Initiative 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 Awakening Copy Share Image
“Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively… — John Piper Discipleship Copy Share Image
Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the… — John Piper Artist Copy Share Image
Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good… — John Piper Blank Copy Share Image
As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing… — John Piper Actions Copy Share Image
“The domestication of God is a curse on preaching in our day. We need to recover reality and the language of majesty… — John Piper God Copy Share Image
What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death.… — John Piper Broken Copy Share Image
The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves… — John Piper Achievement 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 Confidence 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 sin. The real danger is yielding to them. Giving in. Putting up no spiritual fight. And the root of that surrender is unbelief - a failure to fight for faith in future grace. A failure to cherish all… — John Piper Depression Copy Share
“Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your admiration is, the more profound will be your transformation. In the case of Jesus, he is infinitely admirable, and… — John Piper Change Copy Share
“America today is a "save yourself" society if there ever was one. But does it really work? The underdeveloped societies suffer from… — John Piper Drug addict 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… — John Piper Faithfulness Copy Share Image
“Picture salvation as a house that you live in. It provides you with protection. It is stocked with food and drink that… — John Piper Food and drink 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 Christ Copy Share Image
God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom of Christ advances in the world. Prayer gives us the significance of front-line forces, and gives God the glory of a limitless Provider. The one who gives the power gets the glory. Thus prayer safeguards the supremacy of… — John Piper Christ Copy Share
