John Piper Quotes - Page 14

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• It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

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  Blessed, Heart, Purity

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• You have to decide what those issues are for you. What do you think disqualifies a person from holding public office? I believe that the endorsement of the right to kill unborn children disqualifies a person from any position of public office. It's simply the same as saying that the endorsement of racism, fraud, or bribery, would disqualify him - except that child-killing is more serious than those.

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  Children, Believe, Thinking

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.280, Multnomah

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• 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.

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  Crush, Mean, Son

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• 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.

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  Gratitude, Past, Giving

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• The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.

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  Christian, Jesus, Life Changing

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• The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess.

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  Falling In Love, Jobs, Children

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• What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

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  Christ On The Cross, World, Boast

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• One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.

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  Jesus, America, One Day

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• Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

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  Evil, Avalanches, Pebbles

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• The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

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  Faith, Jesus, Godly

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.205, Multnomah

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• Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church

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  Love Is, Church, Covenant

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.113, SPCK

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• The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.

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  Risk, Done, Our Family

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• God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.

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  Waiting, Aim, Wait For Him

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.170, Multnomah

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• God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

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  Waste

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• God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.

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  Running, Dust, Worn

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• If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.

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  Faith In God, Enjoyment, Remove

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• Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.

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  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Delight

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.39, Baker Academic

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• 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 waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.

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  Life Is Too Short, Fighting, Long

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• All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints.

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  Echoes, People, Excellence

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• 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."

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  Hands, Joy, Worship

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• Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

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  Echoes, Truth Is, Concern

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.106, Multnomah

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• The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.

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  Creating, World, Glory

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• Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.

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  Heart, Promise, Sin

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.1, Multnomah

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• Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

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  Wise, People, Wise People

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition”, p.175, B&H Publishing Group

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• The root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great legal work that needs to be done to protect human life, the greatest work that needs to be done is to spread a passion - a satisfaction for the supremacy of God in all things. That's our calling.

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  Passion, Roots, Abortion

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