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John Piper Quotes

Blind people don’t decide to see. Jesus says, ‘See!’ and they see.

– John Piper

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

– John Piper

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

– John Piper

God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.

– John Piper

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.

– John Piper

God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.

– John Piper

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn’t mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

– John Piper

The Christian – the biblical – concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

– John Piper

The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.

– John Piper

Don’t assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don’t use the word ‘fat.’ There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things – especially in preaching – that don’t necessarily go together.

– John Piper

Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

– John Piper

As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning.

– John Piper

When people think about ‘thinking,’ they often think ‘academia;’ they think ‘threat.’ They think ‘coldness.’ I want to reverse all those images and say, ‘No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It’s really good at it if you let it.’

– John Piper

It’s amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It’s amazing how many people go into the ministry who don’t really like to be with people.

– John Piper

God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover.

– John Piper

The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.

– John Piper

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

– John Piper

I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don’t know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.

– John Piper

God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God’s glory will shine.

– John Piper

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

– John Piper

Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways.

– John Piper

The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying.

– John Piper

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

– John Piper

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

– John Piper

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

– John Piper

Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve.

– John Piper

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

– John Piper

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

– John Piper

Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.

– John Piper

There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.

– John Piper

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