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
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
We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly. — John Piper Confidence in god Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts… — John Piper Comfort Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel. — John Piper Adoption Copy Share Image
“What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those whose “god is their belly” (Philippi- ans 3:19).” — John Piper God Copy Share Image
“If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.” — John Piper Education Copy Share Image
We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as… — John Piper Everlasting Copy Share Image
If at the cross every sin was covered, Satan's mouth is shut. He has no weapon. He can gum you but his… — John Piper Covered Copy Share Image
“Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness.” — John Piper Humility Copy Share Image
“The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all… — John Piper Life Copy Share Image
“God is our supreme pleasure. We prefer above all else to know him and see him and be with him and be… — John Piper God Copy Share Image
The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. — John Piper Christianity Copy Share Image
If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them. — John Piper Acting Copy Share Image
One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am… — John Piper Discovery Copy Share Image
Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too… — John Piper Life Copy Share Image
“There is no portrait of Jesus in the New Testament as a merely human teacher of ethics. There is only the Lord… — John Piper Bible Copy Share Image
The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and… — John Piper Appropriate Copy Share Image
“If we only trust Christ to give us gifts and not himself as the all-satisfying gift, then we do not trust him… — John Piper Trust Copy Share Image
“The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God.… — John Piper Faith Copy Share Image
Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith… — John Piper Faith Copy Share Image
In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory.… — John Piper Affair Copy Share Image
“It is my eager expectation and hope that . . . Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or… — John Piper Death Copy Share Image
“Richard Foster is justified in writing: I am concerned that our reading and our writing is gravitating to the lowest common denominator… — John Piper Common denominator Copy Share Image
People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and… — John Piper Able 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
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
If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and… — John Piper Affection Copy Share Image
The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up… — John Piper Agents Copy Share Image
If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby's legs and arms one by one and place them… — John Piper Abortion Copy Share Image
Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts. — John Piper Christian Copy Share Image
“Let us then take heart that the mark of a true follower of Jesus is not yet perfection but rather unrelenting battle… — John Piper Unrelenting Copy Share Image
“Sin can't enslave a person who is utterly confident and sure and hope-filled in the infinite happiness of life with Christ in… — John Piper Happiness Copy Share Image
God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme… — John Piper Enjoy 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
The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference… — John Piper Block 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
“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
The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God's gift of himself for our everlasting… — John Piper Christianity Copy Share Image
“The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is… — John Piper Average person Copy Share Image
