"Christ did not die to make good works……" — John Piper
"Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good."
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151 Quotes by John Piper
John Piper has 151 quotes on this site.
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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
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Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den…
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Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together…
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God tests His people through hardship.
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Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
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You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say…
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Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
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I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them…
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Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the…
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There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he…
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I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any…
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My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to…
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More Avoidance Quotes
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This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting…
— Leslie Groves
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Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a…
— Louis C. K.
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Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
— Dan Greenburg
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We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors…
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In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method…
— Edward Condon
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Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
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...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not…
— Andrew Revkin
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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not…
— Robert Staughton Lynd
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My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice…
— William Zinsser
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The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of…
— Unknown Author
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We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.
— Marilyn Ferguson
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