Quotes from John Piper

At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.

I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don't have significant relationships with most of my neighbors.

Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything.

One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that the veil would be lifted, and that we would see a massive turning of Israel to the Lord Jesus.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.

Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.

It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.

The Great Commission will not get done if we're not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more desired than life itself.