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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
Clergyman
Non-Fiction Writer
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University Teacher
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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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 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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Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings
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Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)
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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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My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.
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If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.
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Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.
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God in eternity looked upon me forseeing my faultness, my pride, my sin and said 'I want that man in my family, i will pay for him to be in my family with my son's life. That's Love folks. That is mega off the charts love!!!
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The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
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Grace is power, not just pardon.
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I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.
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Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .
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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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If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.
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Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller in your heart.
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God tests His people through hardship.
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We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.
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God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.
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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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