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100 Inspiring Quotes By John Piper On Worship, God, Life And More

Famous As: American pastor
Born On: January 11, 1946
Born In: Chattanooga
Age: 78 Years

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.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

John Piper
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

John Piper
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.

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.

John Piper
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

John Piper
It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

John Piper
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

John Piper
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

John Piper
All heroes are shadows of Christ

All heroes are shadows of Christ

John Piper
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

John Piper
The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

John Piper
Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

John Piper
We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody

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.

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.

John Piper
Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

John Piper
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.

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.

John Piper
Reading is more important to me than eating.

Reading is more important to me than eating.

John Piper
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

John Piper
He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

John Piper
There is hope in forgiveness

There is hope in forgiveness

John Piper
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

John Piper
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.

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.

John Piper
America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

John Piper
God without Christ is no God.

God without Christ is no God.

John Piper
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

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

John Piper
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)

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)

John Piper
You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

John Piper
Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God?

Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God?

John Piper
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.

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.

John Piper
Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

John Piper
Your mind was made to know and love God.

Your mind was made to know and love God.

John Piper