"We can say that true gratitude does not……" — John Piper
"We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future."
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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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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
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Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the…
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external…
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to…
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It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career…
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation,…
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
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