John Piper Quotes

The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.

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

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

Go, send, or disobey.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

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

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

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

The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

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.

There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.

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

Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

Giving is a way of having what you need.

Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.

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.

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

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

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

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

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?

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

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

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

God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

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

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

If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.

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

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

Don't coast through life without a passion.

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.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.

The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.

What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.