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The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

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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The inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer - family, career, retirement, fame, food, friends. The essence of worship is experiencing Christ as gain. Or to use words that we love to use around here: it is savoring Christ, treasuring Christ, being satisfied with Christ.
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God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.
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If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
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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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The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us, where will we turn? We turn to Christ. We turn to the suffering and death of Christ—the blood of Christ. This is the only cleansing agent in the universe that can give the conscience relief in life and peace in death.
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Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.
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God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.
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The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is
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The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.
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Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
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When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!
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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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The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.
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Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
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My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.
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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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Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)
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There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously as a child of the King in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.
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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 call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.
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