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Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
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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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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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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The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.
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O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.
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In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.
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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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Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.
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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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People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.
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Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.
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I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.
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The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.
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My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all. You were made for God. Don’t waste it.
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God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.
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CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.
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Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.
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