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God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

John Piper

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
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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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Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
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To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.
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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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