Top 502 Quotes & Sayings by John Piper - Page 9

The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.

Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.

The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.

The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.

The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves the death of Jesus is an all-sufficient price. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then his death was a failure, God did not vindicate his sin-bearing achievement, and we are still in our sins.

Sanctification is a community project.

I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.

God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.

The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church

History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin.

Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

Isn't it ironic that today people say, 'If you know the love of God, you don't have to worry when you go on in sin.' But the apostle John said, 'If you know the love of God, you won't be able to go on in sin.'

Now unto him who is able to strengthen you … be glory.

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.