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John Piper Inspirational Quotes (242)

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Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.
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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.
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For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
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Grace is power, not just pardon.
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It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).
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Sanctification is a community project.
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To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.
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The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.
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CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.
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Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.
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I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.
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Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.
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The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.
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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.
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There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.
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The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.
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We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
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Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.
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It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.
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The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.
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Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions
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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. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
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Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.
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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.
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