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"God is most glorified in us when we are nearly satisfied in Him"
― John Piper

"One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook volition be to prove at the Terminal Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of fourth dimension."
― John Piper

"If you lot don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the celebrity of God, information technology is not because you lot have drunk securely and are satisfied. Information technology is because you lot have nibbled so long at the table of the globe. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the nifty."
― John Piper, A Hunger For God

"If you alive gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks volition exist high, and your joy volition exist full."
― John Piper, Don't Waste product Your Life Report Guide

"Christ did not die to forgive sinners who continue treasuring anything to a higher place seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in sky if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to become people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a style of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't desire God above all things, we accept not been converted past the gospel."
― John Piper, God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God'due south Dear equally the Gift of Himself

"It is amend to lose your life than to waste matter it."
― John Piper

"What is sin?
Information technology is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
The greatness of God not admired.
The power of God non praised.
The truth of God not sought.
The wisdom of God not esteemed.
The dazzler of God not treasured.
The goodness of God not savored.
The faithfulness of God not trusted.
The commandments of God non obeyed.
The justice of God not respected.
The wrath of God non feared.
The grace of God not cherished.
The presence of God not prized.
The person of God not loved.
That is sin."
― John Piper

"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God."
― John Piper

"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church building. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't."
― John Piper

"Fight for united states of america, O God, that nosotros not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, as well painful to waste matter on worldly bubbles that burst. Sky is as well great, hell is likewise horrible, eternity is too long that nosotros should doodle around on the porch of eternity."
― John Piper

"My feelings are non God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God'southward word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every solar day in some measure - I endeavour not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth."
― John Piper, Finally Live: What Happens When We Are Born Once more?

"It is about the greatness of God, non the significance of man. God made man minor and the universe big to say something about himself."
― John Piper, Don't Waste matter Your Life

"Life is not a directly line leading from one approving to the next and and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (non just know in our heads) that God is for usa in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up later on the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ."
― John Piper, A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God

"Practise yous feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of yous, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?"
― John Piper

"God created the states for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him await more like the greatness and the dazzler and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to exist created in the image of God."
― John Piper

"The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—
is this: If you could take heaven, with no sickness, and with all the
friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and
all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties
you lot ever saw, all the concrete pleasures you ever tasted, and no
human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with
heaven, if Christ were not in that location? "
― John Piper, God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

"We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody"
― John Piper

"The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not toxicant merely apple pie.
Information technology is non the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for
sky, only endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not
the X-rated video, but the prime number-time dribble of triviality we
drink in every nighttime."
― John Piper, A Hunger for God

"Want that your life count for something peachy! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion."
― John Piper, Don't Waste matter Your Life

"I am wired by nature to dearest the same toys that the world loves. I commencement to fit in. I commencement to dearest what others beloved. I starting time to phone call earth "dwelling." Earlier you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the state of war. I don't think much most people perishing. Missions and unreached people driblet out of my heed. I terminate dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-fix that looks showtime to what man can do, non what God can do. It is a terrible sickness. And I thank God for those who have forced me again and again toward a wartime mind-ready."
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

"Reading is more important to me than eating."
― John Piper

"Death is similar my machine. It takes me where I want to become."
― John Piper

"The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of cocky-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves."
― John Piper, Don't Waste matter Your Life

"But whatsoever you practice, notice the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say information technology and alive for it and dice for it. And you will make a departure that lasts. Yous will non waste matter your life."
― John Piper, Don't Waste matter Your Life

"Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:iii) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, religion-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When nosotros are about satisfied with God in suffering, he volition be nearly glorified in the states in worship. Our problem is non styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more illness for the worth of Christ, at that place will exist more fruit in the worship of Christ."
― John Piper, Tested past Burn down: The Fruit of Suffering in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper and David Brainerd.

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