Quotes from John Piper

Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything.

One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that the veil would be lifted, and that we would see a massive turning of Israel to the Lord Jesus.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.