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Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

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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We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
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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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For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
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Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.
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You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.
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Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the meaning of this magnitude is not mainly about us. It’s about God… The reason for ‘wasting’ so much space on a universe to house a speck of humanity is to make a point about our maker, not us.
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Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.
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Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.
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God took the record of all your sins-all your sexual failures-that made you a debtor to wrath, and instead of holding them up in front of your face and using them as the warrant to send you to hell, he put them in the palm of his Son’s hand and nailed them to the cross.
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My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all. You were made for God. Don’t waste it.
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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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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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Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .
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We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
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Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.
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The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
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In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.
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Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.
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It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.
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