Christian Quote by John Piper Download Open image “Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.” — John Piper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christian Christianity Important Motive Ruins
“As a motivation —for humans, but Christians especially— guilt is always wrong and can never move them to do anything He wants of them.… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed. — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
Christians appeal to those who wrong them and make them friendly to themselves; they are eager to do good to their enemies; they are… — Aristides of Athens Copy Share Image
I don't understand why Christians are taking such a bashing...and why do we glorify people that do destructive things? — Kevin Sorbo Copy Share Image
Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
Because we call ourselves Christians, our actions need to reflect Christ, — Clayton Kershaw Copy Share Image
Christians should ultimately do everything that we do with excellence. There's a story about repairs in the Sistine Chapel ... when some repair work… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good. — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire… — Francis Alexander Durivage Copy Share Image
An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema;… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 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 empowers you… — John Piper Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 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 the glory… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here. — John Piper Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting. — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
For many, the call to be a Christian can seem demanding, even overwhelming. But we need not be afraid or feel inadequate. The Savior… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him.… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image