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Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.

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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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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The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.
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Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
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The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.
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My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.
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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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