"There is a warning. The path of God-exalting……" — John Piper
"There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.” In other words, it is better to lose your life than to waste it. If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. This is not a book about how to avoid a wounded life, but how to avoid a wasted life. Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy."
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151 Quotes by John Piper
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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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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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