John Piper may refer to:
Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.
Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered
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.
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.
We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future. . . it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.
If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the Church, man will not be well served, and God will not be duly honored. I am not pleading for a diminishing of missions but for a magnifying of God. When the flame of worship burns with the heat of God's true worth, the light of missions will shine to the darkest peoples on earth. And I long for that day to come!
Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.
God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.
If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
I don’t know how people pray who don’t believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they’re possible I’ll do them.
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
. . . we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.
God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.
O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.
The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.