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If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.

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
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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 most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
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When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.
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In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).
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You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.
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Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.
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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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The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.
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Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.
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Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
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Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.
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You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.
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The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.
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Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.
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The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.
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If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.
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Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.
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I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul
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Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.
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