God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him. John Piper More Quotes by John Piper More Quotes From John Piper The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God. John Piper endure found 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 wasted-life risk joy 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 delay detours believe 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 passion inspiration christian God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him. John Piper age mean children You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages John Piper rocks people jesus Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy John Piper prayer helping needs May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully. John Piper vision may christ God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them. John Piper three may I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering. John Piper life-lesson depth suffering The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. John Piper sin self world A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake. John Piper waiting heart running Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, 'Heart, who do you think you are to be afraid of the future and nullify the promise of God? No, heart, I will not exalt myself with anxiety. I will humble myself in peace and joy as I trust this precious and great promise of God - He cares for me.' John Piper humble heart thinking Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime. John Piper pursuit lifetime perfect The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself. John Piper mental-health highest Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel. John Piper steel christian heart There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient. John Piper three missionary christian There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning. John Piper morning soccer kids Worship is what we were created for. This is the final end of all existence-the worship of God. God created the universe so that it would display the worth of His glory. And He created us so that we would see this glory and reflect it by knowing and loving it-with all our heart and soul and mind and strength. The church needs to build a common vision of what worship is and what she is gathering to do on Sunday morning and scattering to do on Monday morning. John Piper monday heart morning 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. John Piper humility grace christian
