John Piper Quotes

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

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

God without Christ is no God.

To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

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

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

Reading is more important to me than eating.

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.

The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

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.

Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

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

Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

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

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

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

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.

It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.

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.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

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

The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

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

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.

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

God tests His people through hardship.

If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.