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He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

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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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I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man. There is no part of life where the greatness of God does not penetrate deeply. I want to help you feel that.
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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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When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.
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Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.
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Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.
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The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.
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Giving is a way of having what you need.
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Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.
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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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Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.
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The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.
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Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
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One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.
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To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.
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There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.
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It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.
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Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.
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Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.
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