Quotes from John Piper
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.
- John Piper
There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.
- John Piper
It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry.
- John Piper
It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.
- John Piper
We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.
- John Piper
Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.
- John Piper
Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.
- John Piper
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
- John Piper
There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.
- John Piper
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
- John Piper
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
- John Piper
You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to cause it to become a conflagration in a community or in a nation.
- John Piper