Top 450 John Piper Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.”

— John Piper

152. “Sanctification is a community project.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

154. “Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.”

— John Piper

155. “The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the world how they are loved by Christ.”

— John Piper

156. “Out of the freedom from worry that God’s generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.”

— John Piper

157. “Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain.”

— John Piper

158. “All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.”

— John Piper

159. “What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?”

— John Piper

160. “Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God’s delight in being God.”

— John Piper

161. “Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church.”

— John Piper

162. “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.”

— John Piper

163. “To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.”

— John Piper

164. “All heroes are shadows of Christ.”

— John Piper

165. “To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.”

— John Piper

166. “The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.”

— John Piper

167. “Reading is more important to me than eating.”

— John Piper

168. “Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.”

— John Piper

169. “Desire for and delight in God’s Word are inseparable.”

— John Piper

170. “To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.”

— John Piper

171. “Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture – this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.”

— John Piper

172. “Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

174. “Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.”

— John Piper

175. “Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God’s appointed remedy for despair.”

— John Piper

176. “The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.”

— John Piper

177. “Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.”

— John Piper

178. “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.”

— John Piper

179. “I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man. There is no part of life where the greatness of God does not penetrate deeply. I want to help you feel that.”

— John Piper

180. “At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.”

— John Piper

181. “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?”

— John Piper

182. “This assumes that the glory of Christ is our highest treasure, not health, wealth, family or even life. So preaching must continually show not that Jesus is the means to prosperity but that he is better than prosperity.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

184. “Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.”

— John Piper

185. “Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.”

— John Piper

186. “Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.”

— John Piper

187. “Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He’s crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.”

— John Piper

188. “The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.”

— John Piper

189. “The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.”

— John Piper

190. “When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.”

— John Piper

191. “God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.”

— John Piper

192. “God’s global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.”

— John Piper

193. “Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything.”

— John Piper

194. “Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.”

— John Piper

195. “Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.”

— John Piper

196. “The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.”

— John Piper

197. “The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.”

— John Piper

198. “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

199. “There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian’s right to live luxuriously “as a child of the King” in this atmosphere sounds hollow – especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.”

— John Piper

200. “Don’t follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.”

— John Piper