Quotes from John Piper

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

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

Don't coast through life without a passion.

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

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

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

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

God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover.

God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

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

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.