"God is most glorified in united states of america when we are most satisfied in Him" ― John Piper
"One of the peachy uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to show at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time." ― John Piper
"If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, information technology is non because yous take drunk securely and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled then long at the table of the earth. Your soul is stuffed with modest things, and there is no room for the great." ― John Piper, A Hunger For God
"If you lot live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be difficult, your risks volition exist high, and your joy will exist total." ― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide
"Christ did non die to forgive sinners who go along treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in sky if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to become people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a manner of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If nosotros don't want God above all things, we take non been converted by the gospel." ― John Piper, God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Dear every bit the Souvenir of Himself
"It is better to lose your life than to waste matter it." ― John Piper
"What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God non reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The ability of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God non savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God non loved. That is sin." ― John Piper
"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to please in God without obscuring the glory of God." ― John Piper
"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't." ― John Piper
"Fight for us, O God, that we not migrate numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is also short, besides precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that outburst. Heaven is besides great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity." ― John Piper
"My feelings are non God. God is God. My feelings do non define truth. God's give-and-take defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth." ― John Piper, Finally Alive: What Happens When We Are Born Again?
"It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God fabricated man small and the universe big to say something most himself." ― John Piper, Don't Waste material Your Life
"Life is not a straight line leading from i blessing to the adjacent and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories similar Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to aid united states feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for u.s.a. in all these foreign turns. God is non but showing upwardly later on the trouble and cleaning it upward. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our adept and for the celebrity of Jesus Christ." ― John Piper, A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God
"God created united states of america 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
"The disquisitional question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you e'er had on earth, and all the food you e'er liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties yous ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or whatever natural disasters, could yous be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there? " ― John Piper, God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
"Do you experience loved by God because y'all believe he makes much of you lot, or because you believe he frees you lot and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?" ― John Piper
"We weren't meant to exist somebody--we were meant to know Somebody" ― John Piper
"The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not toxicant but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for sky, only endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, simply the prime-time dribble of triviality nosotros drink in every night." ― John Piper, A Hunger for God
"Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to accept eternal significance. Desire this! Don't declension through life without a passion." ― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life
"I am wired by nature to dearest the same toys that the earth loves. I start to fit in. I kickoff to love what others beloved. I start to telephone call world "home." Earlier you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money merely the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the state of war. I don't call back much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people driblet out of my listen. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks commencement to what man tin can do, not what God tin can do. It is a terrible sickness. And I give thanks God for those who have forced me again and again toward a wartime heed-gear up." ― John Piper, Don't Waste material Your Life
"Reading is more of import to me than eating." ― John Piper
"Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to get." ― John Piper
"The really wonderful moments of joy in this globe are not the moments of self-satisfaction, simply cocky-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments nosotros are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves." ― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life
"But any yous do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your manner to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a deviation that lasts. You will not waste your life." ― John Piper, Don't Waste material Your Life
"Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast dear of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, religion-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 non styles of music. Our trouble is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, at that place will be more fruit in the worship of Christ." ― John Piper, Tested by Fire: The Fruit of Suffering in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper and David Brainerd.
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