"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him
~ John Piper (artist) ~
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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him
More John Piper (artist) quotes
"Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?
"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him
"Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to was...
"Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the c...
"It is better to lose your life than to waste it.
"God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nati...
"The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of decree." God's "will of decree" is whatever comes...
"I should interweave my theology with prayer. I should frequently interrupt my talking about God by talking to God. Not far behind the theological sent...
"It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the w...
"Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleas...
"God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his ...
"But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die...
"I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the...
"Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ w...