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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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Christ
Life
Treasuring
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Isn't it ironic that today people say, 'If you know the love of God, you don't have to worry when you go on in sin.' But the apostle John said, 'If you know the love of God, you won't be able to go on in sin.'
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The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves the death of Jesus is an all-sufficient price. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then his death was a failure, God did not vindicate his sin-bearing achievement, and we are still in our sins.
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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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Reading is more important to me than eating.
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All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
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No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.
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The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.
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Now unto him who is able to strengthen you … be glory.
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Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.
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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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Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
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We are far too easily pleased.
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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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If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.
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Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
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In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.
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Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.
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The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.
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If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.
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I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.
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