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I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.

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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If at the cross every sin was covered, Satan's mouth is shut. He has no weapon. He can gum you but his fangs are gone.
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The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.
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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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CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.
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I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.
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We are far too easily pleased.
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Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions
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The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is
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Intensity is all that matters in painting.
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The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.
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Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings
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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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God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
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May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.
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Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the meaning of this magnitude is not mainly about us. It’s about God… The reason for ‘wasting’ so much space on a universe to house a speck of humanity is to make a point about our maker, not us.
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Books don't change people paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
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Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.
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Now unto him who is able to strengthen you … be glory.
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The root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great legal work that needs to be done to protect human life, the greatest work that needs to be done is to spread a passion - a satisfaction for the supremacy of God in all things. That's our calling.
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