Quotes from John Piper

Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.

We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.

The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions

Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

God doesn't waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.

The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.

God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.

Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?

Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.