A collection of quotes by John Piper on theology, Christian, living, truth, belief, faith, hunger, desire, reformed, religion, missions, life, sin, books and God.
100 Inspiring Quotes By John Piper On Worship, God, Life And More
John Stephen Piper is a Calvinist Baptist preacher and Chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He served as the Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota for 33 years before becoming a founder and teacher of desiringGod.org. The evangelical organization serves as the primary domain for Piper’s sermons and teachings. He listens to the queries of his web audience and helps them solve it through his guidance and religious stance. Other than being a pastor and teacher, John Piper is a famous author who has authored more than 50 books till date. He is also an ‘ECPA Christian Book Award’ winner for his books, ‘Pierced by the Word’, ‘Spectacular Sins’, ‘Don't Waste Your Life’, ‘What Jesus Demands from the World’, ‘God's Passion for His Glory’, and ‘The Passion of Jesus Christ’. Piper’s evangelical preaching and beliefs are also apparent in his quotes and sayings that give readers a new perspective to life and situations. Read this section and find some of the meaningful quotes and thoughts by John Piper.
We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody
John Piper
God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all. You were made for
God. Don’t waste it.
I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul
He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.
All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.
The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.
The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God.
Once upon a time, there was a safe, private place to take your controversial stand for Jesus. No more. If you are going to stand, you will be shot at—either figuratively or literally.
Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought.
John Piper
Hold your possessions so loosely that when they are lost in the sacrifices of love, your confidence in a supreme Treasure in heaven will fill you with joy.
God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the most loving thing. Anyone else who exalts himself distracts us from what we need, namely, God.
To make them feel good about themselves when they were made to feel good about seeing God is like taking someone to the Alps and locking them in a room full of mirrors.
Racial and ethnic segragtion is a gospel issue! Cephas' fear and wihdrawal from fellowship across ethnic lines was "not in step with the truth of the gospel." Christ had died to tear down this wall.
The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is
...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.
It isn't the size of the window that determines how much you see. It's which way the window is facing, and how close you are, and whether the glass is clear.
The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.
God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.
John Piper
Enjoying and displaying are both crucial.
The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.
Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.
The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.
John Piper
Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God’s delight in being God.
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