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
“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
“The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.” — John Piper Forgetfulness 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 Rebel 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
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
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
Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary… — John Piper Burden Copy Share Image
“Well, God does not mean for us to be passive. He means for us to fight the fight of faith—the fight for… — John Piper Christianity Copy Share Image
“God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God,… — John Piper God Copy Share Image
What is God looking for in the world? Assistants? No. The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. It is a help-available ad.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream… — John Piper Bible Copy Share Image
“As we grow older and our bodies weaken, we must learn from the Puritan pastor Richard Baxter (who died in 1691) to… — John Piper Religion Copy Share Image
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is essentially God’s way of removing the great obstacle to our fellowship with him. By canceling our sin and paying for… — John Piper Forgiveness 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
'Worship' is the term we use to cover all the acts of the heart and mind and body that intentionally express the… — John Piper Body 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 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
“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
The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction… — John Piper 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
“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 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
Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by… — John Piper 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
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts. — John Piper Affection 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 Copy Share Image
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but… — John Piper God Copy Share Image
“God is willing and able to turn his judgements into joys . . . Don't ever think that the sin of your… — John Piper Bitterness Copy Share Image
“Therefore everything that you enjoy in Christ - as a Christian, as a person who trusts Christ - is owing to the… — John Piper Christian Copy Share Image
People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves. — John Piper Earth Copy Share Image
I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus. — John Piper Differences Copy Share Image
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a… — John Piper Christ 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
