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If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.

John Piper

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
Clergyman
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
University Teacher
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.
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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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What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
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Even on days when every cinder in our soul feels cold, if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out for ears to hear, the cold ashes will be lifted and the tiny spark of life will be fanned. For 'the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.'
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Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.
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If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.
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Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.
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Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.
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America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
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Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.
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The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.
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Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.
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Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.
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One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. Abortion is cloaked child-killing
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The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.
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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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Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.
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The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
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Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.
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Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, Now I have another hour to answer for. (Eph. 5:16)
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