John Stephen Piper is an American Reformed Baptist continuationist pastor and author who is the founder and leader of desiringGod.org and is the chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Profoundly inspirational John Piper quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
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Famous John Piper Quotes
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
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him
Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It’s a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God
All heroes are shadows of Christ
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God
My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all. You were made for
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
God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace
All heroes are shadows of Christ
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself
My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define the truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes many times my feelings are out of sync with the truth
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion
When that happens and it happens every day in some measure I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth
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.
God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self satisfaction, but self forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves
The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God
He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him
God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.
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
Books don’t change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences
God without Christ is no God
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
Your mind was made to know and love God
God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God
You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing
We weren’t meant to be somebody we were meant to know Somebody
God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace
Desire that your life counts for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion
Why don’t people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don’t look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don’t need to be rewarded in this life
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self satisfaction, but self forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves
You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ
We give glory to God when we trust him to do what he has promised to do especially when all human possibilities are exhausted. Faith glorifies God. That is why God planned for faith to be the way we are justified
The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it or bow to it.
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
The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.
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
A mind fed daily on TV diminishes. Your mind was made to know and love God.
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
The world cannot know what marriage is without learning it from God
Don’t wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him, so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God
Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives
It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God
Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of marital success than perfect sex and double income prosperity.
Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain
The greatness and glory of marriage is beyond our ability to think or feel without divine revelation and without the illumining and awakening work of the Holy Spirit.
You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ
This covenant keeping love reached its climax in the death of Christ for his church, his bride. That death was the ultimate expression of grace, which is the ultimate expression of God’s glory, which is of infinite value
You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them
Jesus says that all of life, not just marriage, is a showcase of God’s glory
We are not as Christ centered and cross cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ
The beauty of the covenant keeping love between Christ and his church shines brightest when nothing but Christ can sustain it.
Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God?
Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ like, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don’t get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.
Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children.
All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.
All of us, married and single, are supposed to live hour by hour by the forgiving, justifying, all supplying grace of God and then bend it out to all the others in our lives.
