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It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

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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Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
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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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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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The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.
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The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.
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For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
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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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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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The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.
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The cross is not a mere event in history it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!
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The root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great legal work that needs to be done to protect human life, the greatest work that needs to be done is to spread a passion - a satisfaction for the supremacy of God in all things. That's our calling.
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Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
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May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.
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Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.
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Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.
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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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The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.
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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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Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.
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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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