Quotes from John Piper

Belief in Jesus does not come by the waving of a magic wand. It comes by hearing the word of God through Jesus.

If you have pity for perishing people and a passion for the reputation of Christ, you must care about world missions.

When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not sin. The real danger is yielding to them. Giving in. Putting up no spiritual fight. And the root of that surrender is unbelief - a failure to fight for faith in future grace. A failure to cherish all that God promises to be for us in Jesus.

There is no point in romanticizing other religions that reject the deity and saving work of Christ. They do not know God. And those who follow them tragically waste their lives.

The pathway to maturity and to solid biblical food is not first becoming an intelligent person, but becoming an obedient person.

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain.

No man can comfort our souls in this pandemic the way God can. His comfort is unshakable. It is the comfort of a great, high Rock in the stormy sea. It comes from his word, the Bible.

And because his love for you never had a beginning, it can have no end.

Enjoyment of Jesus is not like icing on the cake; it's like powder in the shell.

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

The key to endurance in the cause of self-sacrificing love is not heroic willpower, but deep, unshakable confidence that the joy we have tasted in fellowship with Christ will not disappoint us in death.

God is committed to rewarding those acts of the human heart that signify human helplessness and hope in God.