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"50 John Piper Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 11 January 1946 | Teacher |

All heroes are shadows of Christ

Heroes Shadows Christ
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We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody

We Meant Somebody Know
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Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

Defeated Christ Exile Free
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God without Christ is no God.

God Christ
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Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

Imagination Mind God Beauty
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Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself

Unhappiness Life Listening Yourself
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He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

Destroy Sin Fatal
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The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.

Life Passion God Joy
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In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.
Setbacks Life God Joy
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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

God Glorified Satisfied
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Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

Grace Pleasure God Power
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One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

Prove Last day Prayerlessness Time
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It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Better Lose Life Waste
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The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

Wisdom God Love Sinners
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Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

Books Change People Sentences
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We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

Collection Appetites God
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If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

Live God Life Joy
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Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

Missions Goal Church Worship
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Your mind was made to know and love God.

Mind Made Love God
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If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.
Truth Lead Love Fails
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The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

Strength Patience Believe God
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It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself

Greatness God Man Universe
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Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion

Desire Life Significance Passion
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Reading is more important to me than eating.

Reading Important Eating
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Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

Feel loved God Believe Empowers
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God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God

God Lives Beauty Worth
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Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

Death Car Want Go
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There is hope in forgiveness

Hope Forgiveness
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My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all. You were made for God. Don’t waste it.

Soul God Jesus christ Life
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Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

Surprised Nothing Sun Endless
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I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.

Waste Life Gospel God
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You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

Pass Life Measure Jesus christ
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If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

Alter Biblical God Evangelism
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God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

God Life Deeply Grace
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It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God

God Blessed Pure Heart
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Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

Faith Word God Faith
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Humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

Humility Reach Proud Gift
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The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.

Lord Kind Good Refuge
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A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

Prayerless Christian Board
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What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own

Defines Christians Know Note
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Heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

Heaven Place Indescribable Joy
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Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

Lives Trivial Capacity Worship
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If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

Death Fear Free Risk
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I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

Myself Learn Write
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Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness.

Humility God Glory Grace
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We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Nothing World Anything Hearses
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If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.

Loose Anchor God's word Passions
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You cannot know what prayer is for, until you know that life is war
Know Prayer Life War
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Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

Freedom Fail Hope Fight
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Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don’t presume you will have it tomorrow, and don’t waste it today

Life Precious Tomorrow Waste
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