"Sleep is a daily reminder from God that……" — John Piper
"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. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day."
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John Piper
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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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I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks…
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same…
— Michele Bachmann
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I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back…
— Antonio Banderas
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival…
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a…
— Lynda Barry
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to…
— Bernard Baruch
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
— George Ade
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