We are not saved from sin and changed into righteousness for the sake of pride but for the sake of praise. — John Piper Faith Copy Share Image
We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites. — John Piper Hypocrite Copy Share Image
“Nothing sobers a wandering philosophical imagination like the thought of having a wife and children to support.” — John Piper Children Copy Share Image
“Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.” — John Piper Christianity Copy Share Image
“Whatever it takes, Lord, keep me desperate for You because I tend to wander when I stop feeling my need for You.” — John Piper Desperate Copy Share Image
“God created the world to exhibit the fullness of His glory in the God-centered joy of His people.” — John Piper God 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 Christian Copy Share Image
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of… — John Piper Christian Copy Share Image
The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least… — John Piper Acts of love Copy Share Image
Oh that God would help me waken in you a single passion for a single great reality that would unleash you, and… — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
“It doesn't take a new heart to want the psychological relief of forgiveness, or the removal of God's wrath, or the inheritance… — John Piper Forgiveness Copy Share Image
We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love… — John Piper Call Copy Share Image
“The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they… — John Piper Marriage Copy Share Image
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because… — John Piper Christianity Copy Share Image
Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and… — John Piper Boast Copy Share Image
But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live… — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
“The discipline to rise early is not as difficult as the discipline of going to bed. This did not used to be… — John Piper Discipline Copy Share Image
“Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing but God himself is… — John Piper Holy spirit 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 Faith and love Copy Share Image
Very soon the shadow will give way to Reality. The partial will pass into the Perfect. The foretaste will lead to the… — John Piper Christian Copy Share Image
“The Roman Emperor Julian, writing in the fourth century, regretted the progress of Christianity because it pulled people away from the Roman… — John Piper Christian faith Copy Share Image
Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness… — John Piper Abuse Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have a love for the lost? This is a term we use as… — John Piper Feeling love Copy Share Image
“This point is often missed by evangelical feminists. They conclude that a difference in function necessarily involves a difference in essence; i.e.,… — John Piper Feminism Copy Share Image
Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise. — John Piper Adoration Copy Share Image
“The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have… — John Piper World People Copy Share Image
“Therefore we should pray for each other the way Jesus prays for us in John 17:17-- "Sanctify them in the truth; thy… — John Piper Prayer Copy Share Image
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God… — John Piper Command Copy Share Image
Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy. — John Piper Bible Copy Share Image
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God. — John Piper Chests Copy Share Image
“Are you able—theologically, personally, and resource-wise—to be harmoniously, sweetly, and deeply in love with Jesus together in marriage?” — John Piper Deeply in love 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 Cross Copy Share Image
God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger. — John Piper Compassion Copy Share Image
If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions. — John Piper All things Copy Share Image
God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to… — John Piper Anything Copy Share Image
It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him. — John Piper Arrogant Copy Share Image
“It isn't the size of the window that determines how much you see. It's which way the window is facing, and how… — John Piper Window Copy Share Image
God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him. — John Piper Everlasting 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 Ifs Copy Share Image
Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home. — John Piper Calling Copy Share Image
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