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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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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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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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The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.
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Now unto him who is able to strengthen you … be glory.
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If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.
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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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The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.
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We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.
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Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.
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Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.
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God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.
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If at the cross every sin was covered, Satan's mouth is shut. He has no weapon. He can gum you but his fangs are gone.
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In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.
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The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
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Only the # gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.
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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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God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.
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