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If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
John Piper
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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.
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Intensity is all that matters in painting.
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We are far too easily pleased.
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The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.
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If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.
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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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If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.
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Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.
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Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.
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At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.
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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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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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America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
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Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says Oops. We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the canvas of our lives by the Master Artist who certified his skill, his power, and his love in the Masterpiece of Calvary. If you doubt His skill in painting your life - look at the Calvary
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The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.
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Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
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God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.
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Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.
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No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.
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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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