God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy. John Piper More Quotes by John Piper More Quotes From John Piper All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God. John Piper purpose reality looks I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place. John Piper wrath mercy wonder All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church. John Piper sacrifice army self You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom. John Piper threatening christian people 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! John Piper light heart men The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts. John Piper affection riches danger My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around. John Piper gasoline mouths mother All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints. John Piper echoes excellence people Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the meaning of this magnitude is not mainly about us. It’s about God… The reason for ‘wasting’ so much space on a universe to house a speck of humanity is to make a point about our maker, not us. John Piper space men people Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions John Piper missions glory world 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 tornadoes twists hours Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world. John Piper accomplishment world needs Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him? John Piper cost worship son God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. John Piper gods-will known worship Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That’s the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved. John Piper mean believe jesus 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. John Piper gratitude giving past Grace is power, not just pardon. John Piper pardon enabling grace Wise people know that all their money belongs to God. John Piper wise-people wise people I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful. John Piper practicals aim helpful I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart. John Piper spiritual christian heart
