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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.
John Piper
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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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John Stephen Piper
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Reading is more important to me than eating.
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We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.
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We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.
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Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.
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Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.
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Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
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Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.
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In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).
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He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
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I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man. There is no part of life where the greatness of God does not penetrate deeply. I want to help you feel that.
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The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.
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