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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.

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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I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.
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The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.
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Don't coast through life without a passion.
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The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.
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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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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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If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.
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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
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If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.
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The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.
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The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.
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O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.
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Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
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Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.
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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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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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