John Piper: Doing

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“Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?”

John Piper

Variant: Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God?

Love , God , Feeling

“We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.”

John Piper

Source: The Passion of Jesus Christ

God , Truth , Suffering , Christ

“Books don’t change people; paragraphs do; sometimes even sentences.”

John Piper

Variant: Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
Source: A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

People , Books , Change

“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.”

John Piper

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

Life , God , Way , Passion

“I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul”

John Piper

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

Life , God

“The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.”

John Piper

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

God , People , Pleasure , World

“We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.”

John Piper

John Piper Twitter stream http://twitter.com/JohnPiper/statuses/5570283801 (2009-11-09).

God , Way , Thinking , Joy