Quotes from John Piper

God's reality is displayed to us in His Word or His world and we do not then feel in our heart any grief or longing or hope or fear or awe or joy or gratitude or confidence, then we may dutifully sing and pray and recite and gesture as much as we like, but it will not be real worship.

God's passion to be glorified and our passion to be satisfied are one experience in the Christ-exalting act of worship—singing in the sanctuary and suffering in the streets.

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

Everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed." Concealed sin keeps us from seeing the light of Christ.

God is justified. God is blameless. If God casts David into hell, God will be innocent. This is radical, God-centered repentance.

Therefore, Christ crucified is the foundation of all honest and everlast- ing joy. No self-deception is necessary to enjoy it. Indeed all deception must cease in order to enjoy it to the full.

Don't dwell on your corruption to the degree that it keeps you from joy, freedom, and love.

So the goal of spiritual leadership is to muster people to join God in living for God's glory.

Relativism, as we saw in the previous chapter, undermines that effort. It kidnaps the happy handmaiden of truth and makes her serve the pride and pleasure of pragmatists. Relativists don't pursue truth. They make the denial of truth serve them.

Salvation is not mainly the forgiveness of sins, but mainly the fellowship of Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:9).

Most evangelicals have bought into the need for apparent indifference when writing about massively important things.

Jesus's solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God.