Quotes About John Piper

Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

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The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.

My experience is that the absence of firm prior resolve results in regular rationalization.

Don't leave Christmas in the abstract. Your sin. Your conflict with the Devil. Your victory. He came for this.

If gratitude for the gospel is not rooted in the glory of God beneath the gift of God, it is disguised idolatry.

The explanation of the blindness [in John 9] lies not in the past causes but the future purposes.

terms are an effort to describe the whole of biblical revelation. They are an effort to say yes to all of the Bible and not silence any of it. They are a way to say yes to the universal, saving will of 1 Timothy 2:4 and yes to the individual unconditional election of Romans 9:6

If I were to put my finger on one devastating sin today, it would not be the so-called women's movement, but the lact of spiritual leaderhsip by men at home and in the church

All sin comes from not putting supreme value on the glory of God—this is the very essence of sin.

Thinking for the Sake of Global Faithfulness: Encountering Islam with the Mind of Christ THABITI ANYABWILE

It seemed to me that much philosophical talk about meaning was just plain hypocritical.

The faith that honors Christ is the faith that sees and savors his glory in all his works, especially the gospel.

It shows how Christ-exalting the Holy Spirit is. He will not do his sanctifying work by the use of his direct divine power. He will only do it by making the glory of Christ the immediate cause of it. This is the way he works in evangelism, and this is the way he works in sanctification

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.