Top 450 John Piper Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they’re out.”

— John Piper

52. “People don’t enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.”

— John Piper

53. “Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings.”

— John Piper

54. “The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God’s peace is faith in the promises of God.”

— John Piper

55. “You don’t give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.”

— John Piper

56. “But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.”

— John Piper

57. “Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God’s means in reliance on God’s power.”

— John Piper

58. “The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.”

— John Piper

59. “God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.”

— John Piper

60. “Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.”

— John Piper

61. “You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.”

— John Piper

62. “It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.”

— John Piper

63. “God tests His people through hardship.”

— John Piper

64. “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.”

— John Piper

65. “It is better to lose your life than to waste it.”

— John Piper

66. “We weren’t meant to be somebody – we were meant to know Somebody.”

— John Piper

67. “Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.”

— John Piper

68. “Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.”

— John Piper

69. “Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.”

— John Piper

70. “The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.”

— John Piper

71. “If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.”

— John Piper

72. “There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.”

— John Piper

73. “The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God’s gift of himself for our everlasting pleasure. “In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.””

— John Piper

74. “A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology.”

— John Piper

75. “Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.”

— John Piper

76. “Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.”

— John Piper

77. “God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.”

— John Piper

78. “Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.”

— John Piper

79. “You can’t praise what you don’t prize.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

81. “Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.”

— John Piper

82. “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.”

— John Piper

83. “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.”

— John Piper

84. “Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.”

— John Piper

85. “Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.”

— John Piper

86. “Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won’t be ours.”

— John Piper

87. “The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.”

— John Piper

88. “The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.”

— John Piper

89. “God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.”

— John Piper

90. “Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.”

— John Piper

91. “Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit’s illuminations.”

— John Piper

92. “The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.”

— John Piper

93. “The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.”

— John Piper

94. “The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.”

— John Piper

95. “The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.”

— John Piper

96. “Occasionally weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face. Trust God. And embrace the life you have.”

— John Piper

97. “Put your ear to the ground of God’s word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.”

— John Piper

98. “You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.”

— John Piper

99. “We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.”

— John Piper

100. “Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller in your heart.”

— John Piper