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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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Eternally
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Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.
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Giving is a way of having what you need.
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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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Only the # gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.
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Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.
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My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.
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Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.
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The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.
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The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.
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Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
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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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The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.
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