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Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

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 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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Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
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It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.
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The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.
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Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
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Sin carries in it its own misery.
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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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