Affair Quote by John Piper

“Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.” quote by John Piper — Download Open image

“Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.”

John Piper

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Affair Authenticity Christ Courses Long Love Love affair Our love Running Tests Waiting Want Want him World

More by John Piper

“Even in the miserable guilt we feel over our beastlike insensitivity, the glory of God shines. If God were not gloriously desirable, why would…

John Piper

Image

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is…

John Piper

Image

“The Spirit inspired the Word and therefore He goes where the Word goes. The more of God's Word you know and love, the more…

John Piper

Image

Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you…

John Piper

Image

“Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and…

John Piper

Image

What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The…

John Piper

Image

Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory…

John Piper

Image

“If you hold a grudge, you doubt the Judge.”

John Piper

Image

Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.

John Piper

Image

“Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is…

John Piper

Image

Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity…

John Piper

Image

“job 14:1 man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of troubles "If that isn't your experience now it…

John Piper

Image

Explore all 803 John Piper quotes

More Affair quotes

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

Simon Schama

Image

Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is…

Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Image

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,…

Walter Gropius

Image

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

Andy Warhol

Image

For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it…

Vita Sackville-West

Image

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of…

Joseph Brodsky

Image

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience…

Jean Cocteau

Image

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

Umberto Eco

Image

My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.

Billy Graham

Image

In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed…

Madeleine Albright

Image

Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal…

Vladimir Putin

Image

The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter…

Michael Atherton

Image

Browse all 2,100 Affair quotes

Affair Quote by John Piper

Related quotes

More by John Piper

More Affair quotes