"Your mind was made to know and love God.
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others
~ John Piper (theologian) ~
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Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others
More John Piper (theologian) quotes
"Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.
"Go, send, or disobey.
"Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said h...
"The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil.
"Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people g...
"On the contrary, Christian Hedonists are persuaded with Edwards that the only affections that magnify God's value are those that come from true appreh...
"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.
"A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.
"Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He wil...
"Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they a...
"The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind,...
"I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Be...
"We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that G...
"The world will brin its condemnation. They may even put their sword behind it. But we know that the highest courst has already ruled in our favor. 'If...