Quotes from John Piper

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

But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice.

The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God.

In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

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.

The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.

heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought.

Christians do not just go to work. They go to work "with God". They do not just do a job. They do their job "with God".

To make them feel good about themselves when they were made to feel good about seeing God is like taking someone to the Alps and locking them in a room full of mirrors.

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.

Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.

Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?

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.

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

You cannot know what prayer is for, until you know that life is war.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Hold your possessions so loosely that when they are lost in the sacrifices of love, your confidence in a supreme Treasure in heaven will fill you with joy.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.