John Piper (theologian) Quotes

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

Your mind was made to know and love God.

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

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined w...

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doe...

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

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:...

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

God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suff...

The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when ...

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the sam...

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, ...

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’v...

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, an...

God without Christ is no God.

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and o...

I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love ...

The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a pass...

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...

All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. ...

The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being ...

Your mind was made to know and love God.

If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and ...

...for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely t...

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and...

My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My f...

When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first sho...

Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of Go...

When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they ...

What then do we learn from Paul's unbroken pattern of beginning and ending his letters this way ("Gr...

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases an...

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

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. A...

Part of what we pick up in looking at Jesus in the gospel is a way of viewing the whole world. That ...

The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—is this: If you could have heaven,...

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and ...

The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate ...

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitte...

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of persona...

When God appoints the gospel of his Son as the universal remedy for the guilt and corruption of mank...

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

This point is often missed by evangelical feminists. They conclude that a difference in function nec...

It was a costly triumph. But God’s values are not so easily reckoned. If God had simply terminated S...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

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

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

...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...

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

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

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.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Jesus - “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9).

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.

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your priva...

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...

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

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

. . . 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...