John Piper Quotes - Page 18

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• The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but to see our souls as depraved. To see our need for a Savior. To humble ourselves in repentance for the God-diminishing bitterness of our hearts. To turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship.

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  Heart, Humble, School

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• I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.

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  Special, Church, Calling

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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)

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  Reality, Water, Heaven

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

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• Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one.

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  Mean, Love Is, Confusion

  John Piper (2009). “Life as a Vapor: Thirty-One Meditations for Your Faith”, p.156, Multnomah

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• Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

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  Art, Behavior, Homosexual

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• Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

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  Tragedy, Christ, Wasted Life

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

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• Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.

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  Hurt, People, Dishonor

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• Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

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  Christian, Rising, Firsts

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• The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

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  Broken, Simplicity, Contentment

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.129, Multnomah

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• Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

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  Jesus, Worship, Rejects

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• What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.

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  Essence, Evil, Broken

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• Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.

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  Jesus, Jerusalem, Certain Death

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• The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.

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  Block, Distance, Years

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• One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

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  Christian, Humility, Appreciate

  John Piper (2013). “Alive To Wonder: Celebrating The Influence Of C.S. Lewis”, p.4, Whitaker House

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• I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.

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  Helpful, Aim, Practicals

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• Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

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  Hurt, People, Dishonor

  John Piper (2009). “Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.348, Multnomah

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• Sanctification is a community project.

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  Community, Projects, Sanctification

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• If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.

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  Views, Grace, Very Mean

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.43, Multnomah

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• Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.

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  Darkness, Betrayed, Hours

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

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  Praise, Praise God, Pleasure

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• We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

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  Appetite, Collections

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• Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?

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  Son, Cost, Worship

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• Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

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  Mirrors, Paradise, Majesty

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• If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

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  Names, World, God Love

  John Piper (2002). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.187, B&H Publishing Group

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• Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

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  Causes, Worship, Capacity

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