Quotes from John Piper
The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.
- John Piper
God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
- John Piper
God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.
- John Piper
Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions
- John Piper
Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.
- John Piper
We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.
- John Piper
In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).
- John Piper
For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
- John Piper
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
- John Piper
God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.
- John Piper
Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.
- John Piper
The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.
- John Piper