Quotes from John Piper

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion.

Reading is more important to me than eating.

He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible.

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

God is not worn out running the galaxy. He's not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture.