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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
Clergyman
Non-Fiction Writer
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
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Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.
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We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody
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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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If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.
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Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.
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Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.
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If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
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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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We give glory to God when we trust him to do what he has promised to do-especially when all human possibilities are exhausted. Faith glorifies God. That is why God planned for faith to be the way we are justified.
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The purpose of the Lord's Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.
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God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.
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Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
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Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .
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Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.
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Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.
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I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
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You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.
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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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