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John Piper Inspirational Quotes (241)

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The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.
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The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.
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God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.
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We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
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God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.
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The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.
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Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
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Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.
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If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.
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Now unto him who is able to strengthen you … be glory.
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The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.
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It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.
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One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.
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In Colossians 2:12 and 1 Peter 3:21 baptism is an expression of the faith of the person being baptized. I [do] not see how an infant could properly receive this ordinance as an expression of his or her faith.
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Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.
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All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
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You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.
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The cross is not a mere event in history it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!
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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.
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Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered
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I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.
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Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
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Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.
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Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.
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