Top 450 John Piper Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “Don’t coast through life without a passion.”

— John Piper

204. “The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.”

— John Piper

205. “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

206. “Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.”

— John Piper

207. “Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.”

— John Piper

208. “When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.”

— John Piper

209. “Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.”

— John Piper

210. “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

211. “I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.”

— John Piper

212. “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

213. “Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

217. “God’s greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

219. “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

220. “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

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

224. “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

225. “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

226. “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man.”

— John Piper

227. “Look to Jesus this Christmas. Receive the reconciliation that he bought. Don’t put it on the shelf unopened. And don’t open it and then make it a means to all your other pleasures. Open it and enjoy the gift. Rejoice in him. Make him your pleasure. Make him your treasure.”

— John Piper

228. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— John Piper

233. “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

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

— John Piper

235. “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

236. “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

237. “Therefore we should pray for each other the way Jesus prays for us in John 17:17 – “Sanctify them in the truth; thy Word is truth.”

— John Piper

238. “Give yourself time and quietness in this Advent season and seek this experience. Pray for yourself the prayer of Paul in Ephesians 3:14–19 – “that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” – that you may have power “to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge.”

— John Piper

239. “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

240. “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

241. “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

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

— John Piper

243. “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

244. “So from the context of 1 Thessalonians 5 I say that the key to “rejoice always” is to “pray without ceasing.” Lean on God all the time for the miracle of joy in your life. Never give up looking to him for help. Come to him repeatedly during the day and often. Make your default mental state a Godward longing for all that you need, especially for spiritual desires.”

— John Piper

245. “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

246. “There is hope in forgiveness.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

248. “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

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

— John Piper

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

— John Piper