Quotes from John Piper

No se te ocurra pensar: "Esta riqueza es fruto de mi poder y de la fuerza de mis manos". 18 Recuerda al Señor tu Dios, porque es Él quien te da el poder para producir esa riqueza… (Dt 8:17-18).

Tal como dijo George Macdonald, ministro escocés del siglo XIX: Los ricos no son los únicos que están bajo el dominio de las cosas materiales; también son esclavos los que, sin tener dinero, son infelices por la falta del mismo.

If I were to put my finger on one devastating sin today, it would not be the so-called women's movement, but the lact of spiritual leaderhsip by men at home and in the church

When I say in what follows that love calls us to do good in practical ways that meet physical needs, I do not mean that this help is offered contingent on Muslims becoming Christians. To be sure, every act of love, no matter how practical, longs for the eternal good of the one being loved. We always aim for the salvation of the people we love, no matter what we are doing for them. But we don't stop loving if they are unresponsive. Practical

What we have seen in the last two chapters is that the most foundational thing you can say about marriage is that it is the doing of God, and the ultimate thing you can say about marriage is that it is for the display of God. These two points are made by Moses in Genesis 2. But they are made even more clearly by Jesus and Paul in the New Testament.

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

Therefore Christian Hedonism is passionately opposed to all attempts to drive a wedge between deep thought and deep feeling. It rejects the common notion that profound reflection dries up fervent affection. It resists the assumption that intense emotion thrives only in the absence of coherent doctrine.

God's work does not make our work unnecessary; it makes it possible.

Esteeming God less than anything is the essence of evil.

The faith that justifies gives rise to lives of obedience—not perfection, but growing holiness.

En esta época del año nos enfocamos en el significado de la venida del Hijo de Dios al mundo. Y la intención de nuestra celebración debería ser la misma intención por la que Él vino, la cual está resumida en Lucas 19:10: "El Hijo del hombre vino a buscar y a salvar lo que se había perdido".

Paul makes the point most clearly that marriage is designed to be the display of God. In Ephesians 5:31–32 he quotes Genesis 2:24 and then tells us the mystery that it has always contained: "'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.' This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is. C. S. LEWIS Surprised by Joy1

One way to describe this problem is to say that when these people "receive Christ," they do not receive him as supremely valuable.

I should interweave my theology with prayer. I should frequently interrupt my talking about God by talking to God. Not far behind the theological sentence, "God is generous," should come the prayerful sentence, "Thank you, God." On the heels of, "God is glorious," should come, "I adore your glory." What I have come to see is that this is the way it must be if we are feeling God's reality in our hearts as well as describing it with our heads.

I have no sure sight of God's glory except through his word. The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.

In other words, the covenant involved in leaving mother and father and holding fast to a spouse and becoming one flesh is a portrayal of the covenant between Christ and his church. Marriage exists ultimately to display the covenant-keeping love between Christ and his church.

Biblical headship for the husband is the divine calling to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant-leadership, protection and provision in the home. Biblical submission for the wife is the divine calling to honor and affirm her husband's leadership and help carry it through accroding to her gifts.

faith has tasted the glory of God in Christ and treasures it enough that the fullness of it is worth waiting for and suffering for. Faith has seen the truth that part of Christ's glory is his trustworthiness. Therefore, faith can cast itself on the promise of Christ and trust that the fullness of glory and the fullness of joy will surely come.

We live under the new covenant. But the mark of that new covenant is not the absence of commands, but the blood-bought power to obey them.

preferir cualquier otra cosa más que a Dios es una atrocidad moral en el universo—y, por tanto, es una amenaza eterna contra nuestras almas. Escoger cualquier otra cosa por encima de Dios no solo nos destruye, sino que también nos lleva a distorsionar todo lo bueno que hay en el mundo, incluyendo el dinero, el sexo y el poder.

El fin principal del hombre es glorificar a Dios y gozar de Él para siempre".2 Gozar de Dios es la manera de glorificar a Dios porque Dios se glorifica más en nosotros cuando nosotros estamos más satisfechos en Él.

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. And? Like ham and eggs? Sometimes you glorify God and sometimes you enjoy Him? Sometimes He gets glory, sometimes you get joy?

Lo que merecemos de su parte es juicio. Por eso, cada vez que respiramos, cada vez que nuestro corazón late, cada vez que amanece, cada vez que vemos, oímos, hablamos o caminamos, disfrutamos de un inmerecido regalo por ahora dado a nosotros, los pecadores, que lo único que merecemos es juicio.