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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.

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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The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.
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Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises 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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We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.
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America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
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Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.
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Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.
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People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and feel about the meaning of life. Human nature and American culture make it impossible to rejoice in suffering. This is a miracle in the human soul wrought by God through His Word.
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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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God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.
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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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Grace is power, not just pardon.
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My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.
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The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.
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