Quotes from John Piper

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.

Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?

Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.

In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end." - Paul

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

Don't coast through life without a passion.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.

The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover.

God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.