Quotes from John Piper

What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

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

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.

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

The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.

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

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.

Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.

Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.

Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.

Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.