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Reading is more important to me than eating.

John Piper

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
Clergyman
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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Eating
Reading

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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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The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.
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Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.
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Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us abundance for others.
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People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and feel about the meaning of life. Human nature and American culture make it impossible to rejoice in suffering. This is a miracle in the human soul wrought by God through His Word.
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The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.
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Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.
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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.
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Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
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Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.
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Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
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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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If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
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Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, Now I have another hour to answer for. (Eph. 5:16)
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If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.
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O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
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