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Don't coast through life without a passion.

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
Coast
Passion
Without
Life

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Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
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I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.
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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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