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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.
John Piper
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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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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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I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
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People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.
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Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.
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If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.
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The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.
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Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
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Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.
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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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The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.
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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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Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
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The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.
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So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.
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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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Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.
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Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.
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Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.
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Adoption is the visible Gospel.
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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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