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From Quotes by John Piper
- 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…
- 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…
- We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true…
- God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He…
- One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
- God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking…
- All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and…
- He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and…
- The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon…
- Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road.…
- Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for…
- ...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in…
- Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence…
- Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness.…
- God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad…
- God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and…
- I want to learn from everybody.
- Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.
- We are not saved from sin and changed into righteousness for the sake of pride but for the sake of praise.
- What women rightly long for is spiritual and moral initiative from a man, not spiritual and moral domination.
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle