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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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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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People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and feel about the meaning of life. Human nature and American culture make it impossible to rejoice in suffering. This is a miracle in the human soul wrought by God through His Word.
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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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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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Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
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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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It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.
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The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.
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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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Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
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The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.
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We are far too easily pleased.
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Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.
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For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
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Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.
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The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.
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We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody
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When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news
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We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.
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