Top 450 John Piper Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.”

— John Piper

202. “The call of God creates sight in us. It’s the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.”

— John Piper

203. “I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.”

— John Piper

204. “Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.”

— John Piper

205. “Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.”

— John Piper

206. “God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.”

— John Piper

207. “Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness – both painful and pleasant.”

— John Piper

208. “True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.”

— John Piper

209. “This is the centre of the gospel – this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about – that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.”

— John Piper

210. “Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.”

— John Piper

211. “Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That’s why we call it grace.”

— John Piper

212. “The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ’s achievement in death.”

— John Piper

213. “Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment of entertainment to the next. It is the inability to be shocked into action by the steady-state lostness and suffering of the world. It is the emptiness that comes from thinking of godliness as the avoidance of doing bad things instead of the aggressive pursuit of doing good things.”

— John Piper

214. “If you want to be a conduit for God’s grace, you don’t have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.”

— John Piper

215. “The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.”

— John Piper

216. “The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.”

— John Piper

217. “It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.”

— John Piper

218. “We give glory to God when we trust him to do what he has promised to do-especially when all human possibilities are exhausted. Faith glorifies God. That is why God planned for faith to be the way we are justified.”

— John Piper

219. “The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing – God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

221. “The new covenant is purchased by the blood of Christ, effected by the Spirit of Christ, and appropriated by faith in Christ.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

223. “Isn’t it ironic that today people say, ‘If you know the love of God, you don’t have to worry when you go on in sin.’ But the apostle John said, ‘If you know the love of God, you won’t be able to go on in sin.’”

— John Piper

224. “My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, ‘Shut up!’ to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn’t around.”

— John Piper

225. “Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.”

— John Piper

226. “In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God’s glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God’s glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.”

— John Piper

227. “When everything in life is stripped away except God, and we trust him more because of it, this is gain, and he is glorified.”

— John Piper

228. “Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.”

— John Piper

229. “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

230. “All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.”

— John Piper

231. “We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. 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.”

— John Piper

232. “There is hope in forgiveness.”

— John Piper

233. “God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn’t. Copper will do.”

— John Piper

234. “Don’t marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.”

— John Piper

235. “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

236. “Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.”

— John Piper

237. “God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.”

— John Piper

238. “The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is.”

— John Piper

239. “The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God’s aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.”

— John Piper

240. “If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.”

— John Piper

241. “We are far too easily pleased.”

— John Piper

242. “Humility is the soil in which everything good in the Christian life grows.”

— John Piper

243. “One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.”

— John Piper

244. “It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.”

— John Piper

245. “We need God in ways we do not know. Don’t limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.”

— John Piper

246. “It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.”

— John Piper

247. “If grace is to be free – which is the very meaning of grace – we cannot view it as something to be repaid.”

— John Piper

248. “The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.”

— John Piper

249. “Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.”

— John Piper

250. “Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!”

— John Piper