Quotes from John Piper

I believe God has a future for ethnic Israel.

Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.

Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.

I don't know how people pray who don't believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they're possible I'll do them.

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to cause it to become a conflagration in a community or in a nation.

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.

The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.

Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.