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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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So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.
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God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.
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The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.
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It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.
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Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions
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God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.
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To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.
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Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered
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The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.
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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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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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We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.
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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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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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Giving is a way of having what you need.
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Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.
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All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.
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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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