John Piper Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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.

  John Piper

  Giving, Grace, Delight

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.196, Multnomah

• If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

  John Piper

  Falling In Love, Greatness, Light

• The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

  John Piper

  Our Generation, Leisure Activities, Heaven

• 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 pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

  John Piper

  Christian, Easter, Pain

• We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Past, Giving

• Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

  John Piper

  Treasure, Pleasure, Obedience

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.250, Multnomah

• We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

  John Piper

  Worship, Pleasure, Belittle

• We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.

  John Piper

  Heart, Free Gifts, Buying Things

• It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

  John Piper

  Trying, Arrogant, Worship

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.18, Multnomah

• Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

  John Piper

  Believe, Mean, Promise

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.250, Multnomah

• The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God's gift of himself for our everlasting pleasure. "In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."

  John Piper

  Hands, Joy, Worship

• In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

  John Piper

  Praise, Praise God, Pleasure

• Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

  John Piper

  Marriage, Husband, Heart

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.210, Multnomah

• We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

  John Piper

  Hypocrite, Names, Trying

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.23, Multnomah

• 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.

  John Piper

  People, Needs, Looks

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

• Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Suffering, Pleasure

• When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.

  John Piper

  Treasure, Pleasure, Highest

• The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Differences, Forever

• To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.

  John Piper

  Joy, Soul, Finals

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.87, Multnomah

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