John Piper quotes - page 2

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God. (John Piper)
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion. View quote
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Reading is more important to me than eating. View quote
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There is hope in forgiveness. View quote
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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 for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life. View quote
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Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free. View quote
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Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. View quote
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If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. View quote
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Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. View quote
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When you are deeply peaceful and confident that, because of Christ, God will bring you safely to his eternal kingdom and be the all-satisfying Treasure of your life forever, then you are free to see the truth, and love the truth, and speak the truth no matter what, and joyfully spread a passion for the truth whose name is Jesus. View quote
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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. (John Piper)
Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today. View quote
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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 will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy. View quote
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Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve. View quote
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I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul. View quote
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He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis) View quote
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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, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is. View quote
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Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16) View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. (John Piper)
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good. View quote
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When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine. View quote
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You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally. View quote
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There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian. View quote
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