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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
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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.
John Piper
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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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I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.
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We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.
John Piper
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God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.
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Only the # gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.
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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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Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.
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Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, 'Heart, who do you think you are to be afraid of the future and nullify the promise of God? No, heart, I will not exalt myself with anxiety. I will humble myself in peace and joy as I trust this precious and great promise of God - He cares for me.'
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Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.
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Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.
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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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God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.
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When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.
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Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
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Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.
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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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Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.
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I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.
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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.
John Piper