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Quotes from John Piper

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.
~ John Piper
Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)
~ John Piper
O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
~ John Piper
God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.
~ John Piper
It has to do with seeing God. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" (Matthew 5:8).
~ John Piper
Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.
~ John Piper
God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.
~ John Piper
Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God
~ John Piper
It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.
~ John Piper
Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
~ John Piper
If you don't know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don't know him.
~ John Piper
God tests His people through hardship.
~ John Piper
The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God's glory.
~ John Piper
Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.
~ John Piper
You ought to marry someone who's willing to go anywhere for God. If they're not, they're out.
~ John Piper
The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.
~ John Piper
God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.
~ John Piper
God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.
~ John Piper
The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.
~ John Piper
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
~ John Piper
God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.
~ John Piper
If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
~ John Piper
CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.
~ John Piper
God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.
~ John Piper