John Piper: Quotes about God

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“The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”

John Piper

Source: Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him”

John Piper

Variant: He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“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?

“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

“If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.”

John Piper

Source: Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide

“Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.”

John Piper

“It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.”

John Piper

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.”

John Piper

Source: Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.”

John Piper

“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

“My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all. You were made for
God. Don’t waste it.”

John Piper

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.”

John Piper

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“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

“He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)”

John Piper

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“God without Christ is no God.”

John Piper

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.”

John Piper

“If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.”

John Piper

“Your mind was made to know and love God.”

John Piper

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.”

John Piper

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“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