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I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul

John Piper

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.
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All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.
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One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
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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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Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, Now I have another hour to answer for. (Eph. 5:16)
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Books don't change people paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
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The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.
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Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.
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We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.
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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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Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.
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The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven it is a way to get people to God.
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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 key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.
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The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.
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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.
John Piper
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If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.
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Sin carries in it its own misery.
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Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.
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Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst
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