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• To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

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  Christian, Moving, Comfort

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• Only the #‎ gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.

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  Pride, Two, Increase

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• Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

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  Heaven, Criticism, Rewards

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• Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.

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  Ears, Faithfulness, Rumble

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• Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

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  Mirrors, Dependability

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.189, Multnomah

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• Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.

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  Perfect, Lifetime, Pursuit

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• Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

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  Sun, Endless, Nothing New

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• The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

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  Jesus, Debt, Happened

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• Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.

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  Jesus, Church, Doe

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.51, SPCK

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• Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

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  Book, People, Sometimes

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.13, Multnomah

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• Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

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  Passion, Missionary, Weak

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.36, Baker Academic

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• The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing--God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.

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  Believe, Causes, Persevere

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• If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.

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  Loving Someone, Acting, Feels

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• God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

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  Joy, Killjoy

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• Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

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  Christian, Heart, Steel

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• To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.

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  God Love, Truth Love

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

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• The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.

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  People, Heaven, Way

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• Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

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  Jesus, Real, People

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.17, SPCK

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• There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning.

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  Soccer, Morning, Kids

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• The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

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  Self, World, Sin

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• Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

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  Hands, Design, Holiness

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• 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.

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  Heart, Free Gifts, Buying Things

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• Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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  Flower, Joy, Born

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.148, Multnomah

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• The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction of our faith, and governed by God for the purifying of our faith... Christ sovereignly accomplishes His loving, purifying purpose, by overruling Satan's destructive attempts. Satan is always aiming to destroy our faith; but Christ magnifies His power in weakness.

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  Suffering, Weakness, Purpose

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• The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Giving, Joy

  John Piper (2009). “Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.407, Multnomah

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