Top 450 John Piper Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

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

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

254. “Worship is nothing less than obedience to the command of God: “Delight yourself in the Lord”!”

— John Piper

255. “We are far too easily pleased.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

257. “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

258. “God is infinitely valuable. I can’t think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.”

— John Piper

259. “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

260. “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

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

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

263. “My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.”

— John Piper

264. “What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.”

— John Piper

265. “The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.”

— John Piper

266. “God without Christ is no God.”

— John Piper

267. “Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.”

— John Piper

268. “Theology is a means to enjoying and worshiping God, or it is useless.”

— John Piper

269. “Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.”

— John Piper

270. “We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

272. “We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.”

— John Piper

273. “Sin carries in it its own misery.”

— John Piper

274. “God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.”

— John Piper

275. “Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.”

— John Piper

276. “God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.”

— John Piper

277. “If at the cross every sin was covered, Satan’s mouth is shut. He has no weapon. He can gum you but his fangs are gone.”

— John Piper

278. “Adjust your doctrine – or just minimize doctrine – to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.”

— John Piper

279. “If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.”

— John Piper

280. “Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.”

— John Piper

281. “I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person’s theology was the effect it has on one’s prayers.”

— John Piper

282. “I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.”

— John Piper

283. “When a sinful person meets the holy God in Christ, what he hears is Yes. God, do you love me? Yes. Will you forgive me? Yes. Will you accept me? Yes. Will you help me change? Yes. Will you give me power to serve you? Yes. Will you keep me? Yes. Will you show me your glory? Yes.”

— John Piper

284. “There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning.”

— John Piper

285. “God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.”

— John Piper

286. “We embrace the hand we’ve been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.”

— John Piper

287. “Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.”

— John Piper

288. “The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men in ways appropriate to a woman’s differing relationships.”

— John Piper

289. “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

290. “Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.”

— John Piper

291. “Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.”

— John Piper

292. “I don’t know how people pray who don’t believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they’re possible I’ll do them.”

— John Piper

293. “Marriage is patterned after Christ’s covenant relationship to his redeemed people, the church. And therefore, the highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display. That is why marriage exists. If you are married, that is why you are married. If you hope to be, that should be your dream.”

— John Piper

294. “Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.”

— John Piper

295. “America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.”

— John Piper

296. “The true dimensions of a soul are seen in its delights. Not what we dutifully will but what we passionately want reveals our excellence or evil.”

— John Piper

297. “Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?”

— John Piper

298. “What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.”

— John Piper

299. “God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.”

— John Piper

300. “All of us, married and single, are supposed to live hour by hour by the forgiving, justifying, all-supplying grace of God and then bend it out to all the others in our lives. Jesus says that all of life, not just marriage, is a showcase of God’s glory. “Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to.”

— John Piper