John Piper Quotes

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.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

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

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

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

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.

Grace is power, not just pardon.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

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.

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.

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

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

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

Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.

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

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

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

God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.

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

Your mind was made to know and love God.

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

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

Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

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

This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

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.

There is hope in forgiveness

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

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

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

All heroes are shadows of Christ

The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.