It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my… — John Piper Biblical Copy Share Image
“Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose… — John Piper Doctrine Copy Share Image
True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in… — John Piper Affection Copy Share Image
Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme… — John Piper And love Copy Share Image
In Colossians 2:12 and 1 Peter 3:21 baptism is an expression of the faith of the person being baptized. I [do] not… — John Piper Baptism Copy Share Image
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. Thats… — John Piper Christian Copy Share Image
The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and… — John Piper Causes Copy Share Image
“And, Father, most of all, you taught Me there's a Pow'r in love that naught Can thwart, and that it moves where… — John Piper Courage Copy Share Image
“How to Make a Cuckold out of God by Fasting And when God sees this, he responds. He acts. He rewards. What… — John Piper God promises 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 Religion Copy Share Image
“Preferring Jesus to money is a gift of God. We can't produce it on our own. It must be given to us.… — John Piper Money Copy Share Image
“In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the table of elements; he… — John Piper Belief Copy Share Image
Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's… — John Piper Aim Copy Share Image
Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and… — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
“Listen, self: If God is for you, who can be against you? He who did not spare his own Son but gave… — John Piper Justifies Copy Share Image
“In obedience to God’s Word we should fight to walk in the paths where he has promised his blessings. But when and… — John Piper Joy Copy Share Image
We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the… — John Piper Blessed Copy Share Image
“Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never… — John Piper Confidence Copy Share Image
“He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven… — John Piper Broke Copy Share Image
O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution… — John Piper Christianity Copy Share Image
The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction… — John Piper Accomplish Copy Share Image
“Thus, when Paul says, "Praise the Lord all you nations, and let all the peoples extol him" (Rom. 15:11), he is saying… — John Piper Admiration Copy Share Image
“R.C. Sproul has written that "we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization." As… — John Piper Fundamentalism Copy Share Image
Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations. — John Piper Illumination Copy Share Image
“Thinking is one of the important ways that we put the fuel of knowledge on the fires of worship and service to… — John Piper Knowledge Copy Share Image
You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom. — John Piper Christian Copy Share Image
Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die. — John Piper Abandoned Copy Share Image
Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are… — John Piper Bases Copy Share Image
God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples. — John Piper Aim Copy Share Image
The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt. — John Piper Debt Copy Share Image
“Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.” — John Piper Divine purpose Copy Share Image
Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead. — John Piper Christian Copy Share Image
There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in… — John Piper Atmosphere Copy Share Image