Quotes from John Piper

God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything.

I owe my life and hope to the gospel.

The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying.

I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid?

God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine.

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.

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

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

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

There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.