John Piper (artist) Quotes

Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away f...

We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threa...

. . . the only legitimate reason that kingship is not attractive to us is because in this age and th...

When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to fai...

Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees y...

Therefore we should pray for each other the way Jesus prays for us in John 17:17-- "Sanctify them in...

The Spirit inspired the Word and therefore He goes where the Word goes. The more of God's Word you k...

Here’s an Advent illustration for kids — and those of us who used to be kids and remember what it wa...

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything els...

When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by ...

In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively...

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

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

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have a love for the lost? This is a term we use as part...

Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook...

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

Go, send, or disobey.

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

The horror of Hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of r...

One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses...

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until w...

Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you t...

God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obe...

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients...

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to de...

The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has act...

Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day a...

Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing ...

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. L...

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex ...

The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimatel...

The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thin...

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Di...

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

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue...

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himse...

Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the Fi...

The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of...

God is not looking for people to work for him, so much as he is looking for people ho will let him w...

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. ...

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that tri...

I should interweave my theology with prayer. I should frequently interrupt my talking about God by t...

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

Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the road of objective truth - there is objectiv...

Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ...

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you ha...

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending...

The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.It is not the banquet of the wicked...

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge...

There is hope in forgiveness

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty...

What is sin?It is the glory of God not honored.The holiness of God not reverenced.The greatness of G...

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

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distru...

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

Indeed the devil thinks more true thoughts about God in one day than a saint does in a lifetime, and...

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant ...

The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God...

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there...

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin...

The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestati...

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by Go...

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may b...

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

If we were perfect—if there were no remaining corruption in our hearts—there would be no fight. Ther...

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will b...

In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the t...

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because ...

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theol...

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know t...

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grac...

That's who Jesus Christ is. He became the final Priest and the final Sacrifice. Sinless, he did not ...

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

The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our consc...

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the ...

The world will brin its condemnation. They may even put their sword behind it. But we know that the ...

We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the tru...

Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is b...

There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and sufferi...

The Apostle “Paul’s antidote for wimpy Christians is weighty doctrine. . . .everything that exists—i...

The gospel of the glory of Christ spreads better and flourishes more because of 6,500 languages, not...