Quotes from John Piper

In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.

heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought.

Christians do not just go to work. They go to work "with God". They do not just do a job. They do their job "with God".

To make them feel good about themselves when they were made to feel good about seeing God is like taking someone to the Alps and locking them in a room full of mirrors.

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

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.

Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness.

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

Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?