Quotes from John Piper

The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

As much as we can, let's defend the truth by pointing to what the apostles taught, and let's call out sin by pointing to the inconsistencies between what we say we believe and what we do.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.

God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

I believe God has a future for ethnic Israel.

Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.

Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.

I don't know how people pray who don't believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they're possible I'll do them.

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.