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John Stephen Piper est un pasteur baptiste réformé, un auteur, et un théologien. Il a servi comme pasteur principal à l'église baptiste Bethlehem à Minneapolis dans le Minnesota pendant trente-trois ans. Il dirige l'organisation évangélique Desiring God, dont le nom provient de son ouvrage Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist . Wikipedia  

✵ 11. janvier 1946  •  Autres noms ジョン・パイパー, Джон Пайпер
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John Piper: Citations en anglais

“One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.”

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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.”

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Source: Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure

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

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Variante: 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?”

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Variante: 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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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“All heroes are shadows of Christ”

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Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“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.”

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Source: Don't Waste Your Life

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

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

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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.”

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“Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.”

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Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“There is hope in forgiveness”

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Source: A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God

“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.”

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Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.”

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Source: The Passion of Jesus Christ

“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.”

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Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.”

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Source: The Passion of Jesus Christ

“Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.”

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“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.”

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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”

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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)”

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Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“God without Christ is no God.”

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Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.”

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Source: Don't Waste Your Life

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