John Piper Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.

  John Piper

  Echoes, Feelings, Perception

• The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Heart, Feelings

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.86, Multnomah

• Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.

  John Piper

  Crush, Mean, Son

• Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

  John Piper

  Inspiring, Music, Christian

• Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

  John Piper

  Feelings, Worship

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.88, Multnomah

• Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.

  John Piper

  Father, Love You, Compassion

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.61, Baker Academic

• Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.

  John Piper

  Passion, Thinking, Knowing

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