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Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.

John Piper

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
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All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
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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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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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Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.
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Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
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Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.
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Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.
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The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.
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Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.
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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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He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
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