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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
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
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Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.
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We are far too easily pleased.
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All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.
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Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
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Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.
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Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.
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God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.
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We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.
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You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.
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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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Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
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Sin carries in it its own misery.
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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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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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God in eternity looked upon me forseeing my faultness, my pride, my sin and said 'I want that man in my family, i will pay for him to be in my family with my son's life. That's Love folks. That is mega off the charts love!!!
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The inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer - family, career, retirement, fame, food, friends. The essence of worship is experiencing Christ as gain. Or to use words that we love to use around here: it is savoring Christ, treasuring Christ, being satisfied with Christ.
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The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
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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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Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, 'Heart, who do you think you are to be afraid of the future and nullify the promise of God? No, heart, I will not exalt myself with anxiety. I will humble myself in peace and joy as I trust this precious and great promise of God - He cares for me.'
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