Top 450 John Piper Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— John Piper

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2. “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t.”

— John Piper

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3. “God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.”

— John Piper

4. “The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.”

— John Piper

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5. “The more of God’s Word you know and love, the more of God’s Spirit you will experience.”

— John Piper

6. “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.”

— John Piper

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7. “Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.”

— John Piper

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8. “The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.”

— John Piper

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9. “Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.”

— John Piper

10. “Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.”

— John Piper

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11. “Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.”

— John Piper

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12. “Books don’t change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.”

— John Piper

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13. “Don’t ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.”

— John Piper

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14. “If you don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”

— John Piper

15. “May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.”

— John Piper

16. “God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.”

— John Piper

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17. “Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises.”

— John Piper

18. “Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don’t presume you will have it tomorrow, and don’t waste it today.”

— John Piper

19. “Mission exists because worship doesn’t.”

— John Piper

20. “The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.”

— John Piper

21. “If God’s love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.”

— John Piper

22. “Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.”

— John Piper

23. “This is God’s universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.”

— John Piper

24. “Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn’t happen if you didn’t pray.”

— John Piper

25. “God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.”

— John Piper

26. “Go, send, or disobey.”

— John Piper

27. “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.”

— John Piper

28. “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.”

— John Piper

29. “I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.”

— John Piper

30. “In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.”

— John Piper

31. “If you are sufficient for your task, it’s too small.”

— John Piper

32. “We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.”

— John Piper

33. “One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God’s promises.”

— John Piper

34. “Our obedience is God’s pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.”

— John Piper

35. “We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.”

— John Piper

36. “We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.”

— John Piper

37. “There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.”

— John Piper

38. “The purpose of the Lord’s Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.”

— John Piper

39. “Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God.”

— John Piper

40. “Your mind was made to know and love God.”

— John Piper

41. “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.”

— John Piper

42. “Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions.”

— John Piper

43. “Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.”

— John Piper

44. “The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

— John Piper

45. “Every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.”

— John Piper

46. “One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.”

— John Piper

47. “The cross is not a mere event in history; it’s a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!”

— John Piper

48. “Grace is power, not just pardon.”

— John Piper

49. “Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper