John Piper Quotes

What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.

Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.

Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

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.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.

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.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

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.

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

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

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

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.

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

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.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.

You can't praise what you don't prize.

Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.

If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.

When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news

The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.

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

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

The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.

True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.

If at the cross every sin was covered, Satan's mouth is shut. He has no weapon. He can gum you but his fangs are gone.

Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

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

Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.

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

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.

Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller in your heart.

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)

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

The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.

There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.

Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.