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Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.
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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My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all. You were made for God. Don’t waste it.
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Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the meaning of this magnitude is not mainly about us. It’s about God… The reason for ‘wasting’ so much space on a universe to house a speck of humanity is to make a point about our maker, not us.
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Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us abundance for others.
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We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
John Piper
The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
John Piper
Adoption is the visible Gospel.
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The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
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God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.
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God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.
John Piper
The cross is not a mere event in history it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!
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We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
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If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.
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We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
John Piper
We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.
John Piper
Sin carries in it its own misery.
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Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
John Piper
God tests His people through hardship.
John Piper
Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
John Piper
People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.
John Piper
When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.
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