John Piper Quotes

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• God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
• Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the…
• Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.
• God tests His people through hardship.
• Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
• You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.
• Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
• I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.
• Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.
• There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.
• I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure…
• My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have…
• The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says…
• When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His…
• Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with…
• Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring…
• The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness…
• Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps…
• All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions…
• Reading is more important to me than eating.

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