God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time. — John Piper Dust Copy Share Image
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts. — John Piper Affection Copy Share Image
Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by… — John Piper About Copy Share Image
“The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).” — John Piper Freedom Copy Share Image
The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning… — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power. — John Piper Big Copy Share Image
“Christian, be a Christian: live by faith; walk by the Spirit; serve in the strength that God supplies.” — John Piper Christian 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… — John Piper Believe Copy Share Image
“I also saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor yet my bad… — John Piper Justice Copy Share Image
“... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our… — John Piper Faith Copy Share Image
“Racial and ethnic segragtion is a gospel issue! Cephas' fear and wihdrawal from fellowship across ethnic lines was "not in step with… — John Piper Christianity Copy Share Image
The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ… — John Piper Accomplished Copy Share Image
“[C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not… — John Piper Beauty Copy Share Image
“Let’s not overlook that eating the Lord’s Supper with God’s people is a kind of preaching that is also meant to feed… — John Piper Bread 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 Christ Copy Share Image
There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and… — John Piper Christianity Copy Share Image
“God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the… — John Piper Bible Copy Share Image
“Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a… — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
“As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to… — John Piper Learning Copy Share Image
Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small.… — John Piper Doe Copy Share Image
“Being persuaded that Christ and his promises are factual is not by itself saving faith. That is why some professing Christians will… — John Piper Christianity 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 Christianity Copy Share Image
“In other words, in the new covenant God promises that he will take the initiative and will create a new heart, so… — John Piper Covenant Copy Share Image
It is evil to justify killing (unborn babies) by the happy outcome of eternity for the one killed. This same justification could… — John Piper Abortion Copy Share Image
“People lift their hand to rebel against the Most High only to find that their rebellion is unwitting service in the wonderful… — John Piper Revolution Copy Share Image
“For Jesus, the demand for joy is a way to live with suffering and to outlast suffering.” — John Piper Joy Copy Share Image
CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others. — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick. — John Piper Doctors Copy Share Image
“The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.” — John Piper Forgetfulness Copy Share Image
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Dont coast through life… — John Piper Desire Copy Share Image
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… — John Piper Amazing Copy Share Image
I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both. — John Piper Love 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 Believe Copy Share Image
I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man.… — John Piper Art of life Copy Share Image
The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking… — John Piper Barriers Copy Share Image
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the… — John Piper Basements Copy Share Image
God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent… — John Piper Broken Copy Share Image
“There will be no danger of idolatry. The earth and the heavens and all things will declare the glory of God, and… — John Piper Fellowship with god Copy Share Image
Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head… — John Piper Christianity Copy Share Image
“Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the road of objective truth - there is objective being and objective value.… — John Piper Journey Copy Share Image