John Piper Quotes

John Piper
American Clergyman
Born: Jan 11, 1946
Christ God Good Life People You
Related authors: Billy Graham Charles R. Swindoll Henry Ward Beecher Jim Elliot Joel Osteen John C. Maxwell Norman Vincent Peale Thomas S. Monson
Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. John Piper
Hope Future God Good You Yourself Darkness Wait Impossible Will Nothing Nothing Is Impossible Way Out Temptation More Blank Argue He Conceive Looks Without Pray Huge Than Quit Ladders Middle Pits Ropes Forward Good Company Company
Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections. John Piper
Must Imperfections Perfection Redeemed Redemption Realize
We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence. John Piper
Life God Time Together Light Design Side Back Threads See Weaving Through Lights Glimpse Like Knots Look Most Occasionally Loose Tangled Existence Shines Tapestry Get Larger
The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty. John Piper
Death Best News Joy Christ Remove Beauty Glorious Christian Every Universe Find Seeing Resurrection Between Obstacle Himself Supremely Gospel His Infinite May Us Acted Creator Everlasting Jesus
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. John Piper
God Satisfied Most Him Glorified Us
Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see. John Piper
People Says See Blind Decide Jesus
Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture. John Piper
Culture Depend Every Worship Sphere Point Put Were Human Human Beings Planet Beings Creator
God tests His people through hardship. John Piper
God People Through His Tests Hardship
Sin carries in it its own misery. John Piper
Own Carries Misery Sin
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. John Piper
World Dangerous Independence Dangerous Thing Sin Most Self-Reliance Thing
You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally. John Piper
Life God You Totally Give He Over Authority Your
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it. John Piper
You Bible Believe Everything Says Examining He Without Ultimate Infallible Pastor Authority Mean Elders
The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history. John Piper
History Feeling Thinking Philosophy Way Idea Gospel Theory Event
I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid? John Piper
God Seen Voice Know Lord Hand Afraid Should Helper Why
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! John Piper
Food Sex Our Tribute TV Kitchen Occasional Bedroom Woe Blocks Den Get Cement Us Satisfaction Basement
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. John Piper
Me Job Lose Pay Through Hospital Know Him How Poor Bill Who Things Strengthens
Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible. John Piper
Bible Culture World Light Reading Understanding Interpretation Other Involves Parts Around Reference Lots Lots And Lots Just Us
Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways. John Piper
Change Christ Other Relationships Enrichment Ways Those Significant Sexual Through Abstinence Attraction Occasion Glorify Glory Hearts Any Same-Sex Whether Turn Orientation
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 Gave Tornado Stays Hour Like Massive Command Miles Ground Twists
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good. John Piper
God Good You Together Side Everything All Things Without Sovereign Your Who Works Why Things Grumbling
I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt. John Piper
Life Hope Suffering Pride Guilt My Life White Moral Would Would-Be Paralysis Both Gospel Without Answer Still Owe
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. John Piper
Love Wisdom Spiritual Obedience Humble Path First Other Relationships Responsible More Various Discerning Call Him Submissive Offices Persons Then Jesus Two
God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover. John Piper
God Time Poison Living Universe Thomas Drank Alive William Magazine Plymouth Colony Absolutely He Put Absurdly Dead Him Governed Cover His Existence Front Proclaimed Exploded Socrates
God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute. John Piper
God Faith Obedience Righteousness Law Christ Increased Through Pointed No-One Performed Himself Because Revealed Goal End Mouths Substitute Which Transgression Shut Humans Need
Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me. John Piper
God Strength Me First Before Our Recognized Source Commandment Gods Any Whenever Breaking
There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity. John Piper
Bible Justice Diversity Goodness Beauty Harmony Concerning Racial Many
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