Quotes about God
God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.
- John Piper
Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.
- John Piper
Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
- John Piper
Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.
- John Piper
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.
- John Piper
Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
- John Piper
Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.
- John Piper
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.
- John Piper
God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.
- John Piper
The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.
- John Piper
So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.
- John Stott
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
- John Stott