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You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.
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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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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The purpose of the Lord's Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.
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Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.
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The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.
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People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.
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I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.
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Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
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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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I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.
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God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.
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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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Intensity is all that matters in painting.
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Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
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True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.
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The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.
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The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.
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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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O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.
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From eternity to eternity, the beauty of God is pervasive and practical. Ask him to open the eyes of your heart (Ephesians 1:18). Give your life to this quest - seeing and savoring more and more of the happifying beauty of God.
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Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.
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