Quotes from John Piper

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.

The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.

Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God's good will toward us in all his gifts.

Go, send, or disobey.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.

The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.

Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.

Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.