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We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

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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