Quotes from John Piper

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything.

I owe my life and hope to the gospel.

The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying.

I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid?

God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine.

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning.

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.

The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.

Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

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

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.

Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.