“God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the most loving thing. Anyone else who exalts himself distracts… — John Piper God Copy Share Image
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. — John Piper Boast Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts. — John Piper Arise Copy Share Image
Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the… — John Piper Aliens Copy Share Image
Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take. — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
“If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for… — John Piper Boldness Copy Share Image
Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging. — John Piper Damaging Copy Share Image
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person. — John Piper Belittle Copy Share Image
God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith,… — John Piper Because Copy Share Image
This assumes that the glory of Christ is our highest treasure, not health, wealth, family or even life. So preaching must continually… — John Piper Assuming Copy Share Image
The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened… — John Piper Apex Copy Share Image
We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical.… — John Piper Culture Copy Share Image
Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for… — John Piper Doe Copy Share Image
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of… — John Piper Canyons 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 Cherished Copy Share Image
The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the… — John Piper Christ 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… — John Piper Christ Copy Share Image
“We will never stand in awe of being loved by God until we reckon with the seriousness of our sin and the… — John Piper Death Copy Share Image
“Nowhere else in all the Bible is there a preface to a command like this one: “I charge you in the presence… — John Piper Bible Copy Share Image
“Banish professionalism from our midst, Oh God, an din its place put passionate prayer, poverty of spirit, hunger for God, rigorous study… — John Piper Education Copy Share Image
My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the… — John Piper America Copy Share Image
Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is… — John Piper Beloved Copy Share Image
“God and God alone is the final, ultimate goal of our quest. All that God is for us in Jesus is the… — John Piper Adventure Copy Share Image
Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God. — John Piper Christian inspirational Copy Share Image
“Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.” — John Piper Art Copy Share Image
“We humans have never had the resources in ourselves to love each other well across ethnic lines. There is too much selfishness… — John Piper Ethnic Copy Share Image
Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work. — John Piper Art work Copy Share Image
Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will… — John Piper Beauty Copy Share Image
The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for… — John Piper All things Copy Share Image
There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and… — John Piper Beauty Copy Share Image
If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to… — John Piper Grace Copy Share Image
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our… — John Piper Patience Copy Share Image
“Jesus calls for violence against our own lust because he loves our true and lasting joy.” — John Piper Jesus Copy Share Image
Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can… — John Piper Can do Copy Share Image
“If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal… — John Piper Christian Copy Share Image
Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward. — John Piper Criticism Copy Share Image
“A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know… — John Piper Bus driver 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
Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus. — John Piper Children Copy Share Image
