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The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven it is a way to get people 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
Gospel
Heaven
Way
People

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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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O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
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Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the meaning of this magnitude is not mainly about us. It’s about God… The reason for ‘wasting’ so much space on a universe to house a speck of humanity is to make a point about our maker, not us.
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The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
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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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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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The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
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We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
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In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.
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Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.
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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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Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.
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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 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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Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
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