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Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

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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All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.
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My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.
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If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
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It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.
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We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.
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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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Books don't change people paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
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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.
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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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I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
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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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Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
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America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
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The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.
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May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.
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The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.
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Without extended, concentrated prayer, the ministry of the Word withers. And when the ministry of the Word declines, faith (Rom. 10:17 Gal. 3:2, 5) and holiness (John 17:17) decline. Activity may continue, but life and power and fruitfulness fade away. Therefore, whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.
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Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings
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I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul
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Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.
John Piper