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John Piper Inspirational Quotes (241)

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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.
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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.
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Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.
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Adoption is the visible Gospel.
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Even on days when every cinder in our soul feels cold, if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out for ears to hear, the cold ashes will be lifted and the tiny spark of life will be fanned. For 'the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.'
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The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.
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We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
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The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.
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God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
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God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.
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Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.
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The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.
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Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller in your heart.
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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.
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My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.
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If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.
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Sin carries in it its own misery.
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Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.
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Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.
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Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.
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Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.
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In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).
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If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.
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Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.
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