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We are far too easily pleased.

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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The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.
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No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.
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It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.
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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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Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
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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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I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man. There is no part of life where the greatness of God does not penetrate deeply. I want to help you feel that.
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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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Grace is power, not just pardon.
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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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Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.
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Sin carries in it its own misery.
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Don't coast through life without a passion.
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It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.
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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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Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. 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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