Quotes from John Piper
Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.
- John Piper
If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.
- John Piper
My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That's all. You were made for God. Don't waste it.
- John Piper
Every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.
- John Piper
I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.
- John Piper
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
- John Piper
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
- John Piper
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
- John Piper
Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.
- John Piper
I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
- John Piper
God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.
- John Piper
He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
- John Piper