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Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

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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Dies
Christ
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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
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Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
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You can't praise what you don't prize.
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It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.
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If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.
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The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.
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Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.
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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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The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.
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Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
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God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.
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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.
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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. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.
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If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
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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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Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.
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Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
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God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.
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