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Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.

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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Bible

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The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves the death of Jesus is an all-sufficient price. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then his death was a failure, God did not vindicate his sin-bearing achievement, and we are still in our sins.
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The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.
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We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord.
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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 grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.
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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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The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
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There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously as a child of the King in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.
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The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men in ways appropriate to a woman's differing relationships.
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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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Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller in your heart.
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The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.
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The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.
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God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.
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All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.
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Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
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There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.
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If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
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Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.
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In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.
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