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 We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy. John Piper free-giftsbuying-thingsheart We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person. John Piper belittlepleasureworship The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night. John Piper applespienight There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus. John Piper heavenpeoplejesus Oh that God would help me waken in you a single passion for a single great reality that would unleash you, and set you free from small dreams, and send you, for the glory of Christ, into all the spheres of secular life and to all the peoples of the earth. John Piper passiondreamreality Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections. John Piper redemptionrealizingperfection So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life. John Piper sundaytakenheart The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God. John Piper valentines-daylossson God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him. John Piper miserypeoplemoving Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future. John Piper meanpastthinking According to the spirit of this age, the ultimate sin is no longer the failure to honor and thank God but the failure to esteem oneself. Self-abasement, not God-abasement, is the evil. And the cry of deliverance is not "O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me?" but "O worthy man that I am, would that I could only see it better"! John Piper self-esteemevilmen Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church. John Piper churchdoejesus God tests His people through hardship. John Piper hardshiptestspeople Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go. John Piper christian-inspirationalcarwant 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 empoweringenjoybelieve We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses. John Piper haulbehindsworld You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out. John Piper oughtwillingifs 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. John Piper passionchristianevil Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16) John Piper clockhoursanswers At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. John Piper godlylevelsbook
