John Piper Quotes

Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God.

The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature

Everything [Jesus] taught and did was a summons to the humility and love that purge self-exaltation out of leadership and servility out of submission.

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

Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.

The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil.

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

When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.

There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.

If we were perfect—if there were no remaining corruption in our hearts—there would be no fight. There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for.

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructiveto be bitter.

Jesus - “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9).

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.

Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.

The Spirit inspired the Word and therefore He goes where the Word goes. The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.

Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.

One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

The horror of Hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.