Top 502 Quotes & Sayings by John Piper - Page 3

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

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.

May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.

I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no condemnation for those who believe, but only everlasting joy.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

Worship is what we were created for. This is the final end of all existence-the worship of God. God created the universe so that it would display the worth of His glory. And He created us so that we would see this glory and reflect it by knowing and loving it-with all our heart and soul and mind and strength. The church needs to build a common vision of what worship is and what she is gathering to do on Sunday morning and scattering to do on Monday morning.

The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

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.

You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.

Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.

The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.

There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

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.

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.

Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ.

God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

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

Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief.

In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.

Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion.

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

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the canvas of our lives by the Master Artist who certified his skill, his power, and his love in the Masterpiece of Calvary. If you doubt His skill in painting your life - look at the Calvary

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.

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

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.

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.

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

We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.

Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.

Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.

The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.