Top 450 John Piper Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.”

— John Piper

102. “Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God’s knowing doesn’t count?”

— John Piper

103. “Giving is a way of having what you need.”

— John Piper

104. “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

105. “There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.”

— John Piper

106. “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.”

— John Piper

107. “Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.”

— John Piper

108. “When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!”

— John Piper

109. “The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.”

— John Piper

110. “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.”

— John Piper

111. “The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray.”

— John Piper

112. “Adoption is the visible Gospel.”

— John Piper

113. “Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.”

— John Piper

114. “If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.”

— John Piper

115. “Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for more grace – future grace – and thus magnifying the infinite resources of God’s love and power.”

— John Piper

116. “Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.”

— John Piper

117. “Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.”

— John Piper

118. “We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. And where it can’t, it weeps.”

— John Piper

119. “God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.”

— John Piper

120. “Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.”

— John Piper

121. “The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.”

— John Piper

122. “My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes – many times – my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens – and it happens every day in some measure – I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.”

— John Piper

123. “There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.”

— John Piper

124. “Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy.”

— John Piper

125. “Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst.”

— John Piper

126. “God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.”

— John Piper

127. “Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.”

— John Piper

128. “We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.”

— John Piper

129. “And in these last hours, the lifetime of this year passes before my eyes, and I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say “Well done, good and faithful servant”?”

— John Piper

130. “O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.”

— John Piper

131. “Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us; abundance for others.”

— John Piper

132. “The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.”

— John Piper

133. “Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.”

— John Piper

134. “The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.”

— John Piper

135. “Even on days when every cinder in our soul feels cold, if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out for ears to hear, the cold ashes will be lifted and the tiny spark of life will be fanned. For ‘the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.’”

— John Piper

136. “When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.”

— John Piper

137. “Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.”

— John Piper

138. “Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.”

— John Piper

139. “You can’t make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.”

— John Piper

140. “All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.”

— John Piper

141. “The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.”

— John Piper

142. “God created me – and you – to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion – namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.”

— John Piper

143. “Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.”

— John Piper

144. “The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.”

— John Piper

145. “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

146. “In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.”

— John Piper

147. “History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam’s sin.”

— John Piper

148. “Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.”

— John Piper

149. “Sanctification is a community project.”

— John Piper

150. “Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.”

— John Piper