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John Piper Inspirational Quotes (242)

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Books don't change people paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
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Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.
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One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
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When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.
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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.
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The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.
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So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.
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Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.
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Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.
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The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir is invisible except through the promises. But the ever-enlarging pool of past grace is visible and God means for the certainty and beauty and depth to strengthen our faith in future grace.
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The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.
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The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.
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If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.
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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.
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Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.
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Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.
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If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.
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You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.
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God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.
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Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.
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Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.
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Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst
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Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
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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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