"My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally……" — John Piper
"My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around."
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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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The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that…
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More Foul Quotes
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Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism…
— Annie Besant
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball…
— Harlan Coben
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We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or…
— E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the…
— Chuck Daly
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...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He…
— Ralph Miller
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But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.
— Sam Snead
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The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people…
— Seneca the Younger
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One sacrifice has to be made: never use harsh or rude language. Foul language you can use; foul language doesn't…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through…
— Luis Bunuel
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Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.
— Wes Fesler
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