Top 450 John Piper Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “We are more than a collection of appetites – we are of God.”

— John Piper

352. “I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.”

— John Piper

353. “If we abandon the fullness of the gospel to make racial and ethnic diversity quicker or easier, we create a mere shadow of the kingdom, an imitation.”

— John Piper

354. “I’ve always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don’t know. I love them both.”

— John Piper

355. “The church is not called to be responsible for the way unbelievers run their lives. But we are called to be responsible, by the power of the Spirit and for the glory of Jesus, for the way believers live and the kind of relationships that are cultivated in the fellowship of the church.”

— John Piper

356. “God is not worshiped where He is not treasured and enjoyed.”

— John Piper

357. “God loves us by liberating us from the bondage of self so that we can enjoy knowing and admiring him forever.”

— John Piper

358. “The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for.”

— John Piper

359. “The world is not impressed when Christians get rich and say thanks to God. They are impressed when God is so satisfying that we give our riches away for Christ’s sake and count it gain.”

— John Piper

360. “We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.”

— John Piper

361. “If you have pity for perishing people and a passion for the reputation of Christ, you must care about world missions.”

— John Piper

362. “Indeed the devil thinks more true thoughts about God in one day than a saint does in a lifetime, and God is not honored by it. The problem with the devil is not his theology, but his desires. Our chief end is to glorify God, the great Object. We do so most fully when we treasure him, desire him, delight in him so supremely that we let goods and kindred go and display his love to the poor and the lost.”

— John Piper

363. “Not to enjoy God is to dishonor Him.”

— John Piper

364. “Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.”

— John Piper

365. “Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God?”

— John Piper

366. “But we also need stories. Great stories.”

— John Piper

367. “We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.”

— John Piper

368. “Living to magnify Christ is costly.”

— John Piper

369. “When faith is in fullest operation, it pictures a future with a God who is so powerful and so loving and so wise and so satisfying that this future-picturing faith experiences assurance. Now.”

— John Piper

370. “Resolved: To live with all my might while I do live.” And.”

— John Piper

371. “Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.”

— John Piper

372. “We desire the wrong things, and we desire right things in the wrong way. And both are deadly – like eating pleasant poison.”

— John Piper

373. “The way we honor Christ in death is to treasure Jesus above the gift of life, and the way we honor Christ in life is to treasure Jesus above life’s gifts.”

— John Piper

374. “Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.”

— John Piper

375. “When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not sin. The real danger is yielding to them. Giving in. Putting up no spiritual fight. And the root of that surrender is unbelief – a failure to fight for faith in future grace. A failure to cherish all that God promises to be for us in Jesus.”

— John Piper

376. “The Calvary road with Jesus is not a joyless road. It is a painful one, but it is a profoundly happy one. When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy.”

— John Piper

377. “The point is that an $80,000 or a $180,000 salary does not have to be accompanied by an $80,000 or a $180,000 lifestyle. God is calling us to be conduits of his grace, not cul-de-sacs. Our great danger today is thinking that the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn’t. Copper will do. No matter how grateful we are, gold will not make the world think that our God is good; it will make people think that our god is gold. That is no honor to the supremacy of his worth.”

— John Piper

378. “Authenticity begins when you start by admitting that you are inauthentic.”

— John Piper

379. “When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. Worship, therefore, is the fuel and the goal of missions.8.”

— John Piper

380. “So the question we need to ask today is this: if the teaching in our church was limited to the songs that we sing, how well taught would we be? How well would we know God? We should make it our aim not only to preach the whole counsel of God but to sing it, as well.”

— John Piper

381. “Cancer does not win if we die. It wins if we fail to cherish Christ.”

— John Piper

382. “That’s who Jesus Christ is. He became the final Priest and the final Sacrifice. Sinless, he did not offer sacrifices for himself. Immortal, he never has to be replaced. Human, he could bear human sins. Therefore he did not offer sacrifices for himself; he offered himself as the final sacrifice. There will never be the need for another. There is one mediator between us and God. One priest. We need no other. Oh, how happy are those who draw near to God through Christ alone.”

— John Piper

383. “So I arrive at this definition of gratitude. Gratitude is a species of joy which arises in your heart in response to the goodwill of someone who does or tries to do you a favor.”

— John Piper

384. “Don’t make peace with the sin in your life.”

— John Piper

385. “Don’t leave Christmas in the abstract. Your sin. Your conflict with the Devil. Your victory. He came for this.”

— John Piper

386. “The pathway to maturity and to solid biblical food is not first becoming an intelligent person, but becoming an obedient person.”

— John Piper

387. “He may be doing it for you in this Advent season – graciously and tenderly frustrating you with life that is not centered on Christ and filling you with longings and desires that can’t find their satisfaction in what this world offers, but only in the God-man. What a Christmas gift that might be! Let all your frustrations with this world throw you onto the Word of God. It will become sweet – like walking into paradise.”

— John Piper

388. “Apart from new birth, I am my problem. You are not my main problem. My parents were not my main problem. My enemies are not my main problem. I am my main problem. Not my deeds, and not my circumstances, and not the people in my life, but my nature is my deepest personal problem.”

— John Piper

389. “No man can comfort our souls in this pandemic the way God can. His comfort is unshakable. It is the comfort of a great, high Rock in the stormy sea. It comes from his word, the Bible.”

— John Piper

390. “If you hold a grudge, you doubt the Judge.”

— John Piper

391. “In John 3:16, Jesus teaches us that the God who exists loves. Let that sink in. The God who absolutely is. Loves. He loves. Of all the things you might say about God, be sure to say this: he loves.”

— John Piper

392. “The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse.”

— John Piper

393. “The one thing God is doing in all of redemptive history is to show forth his mercy in such a way that the greatest number of people will throughout eternity delight in him with all their heart, strength, and mind.”

— John Piper

394. “The problem is not a battle between contemporary worship music and hymns; the problem is that there aren’t enough martyrs during the week. If no soldiers are perishing, what you want on Sunday is Bob Hope and some pretty girls, not the army chaplain and a surgeon.”

— John Piper

395. “Make the mule of your tongue serve the mercy of your heart.”

— John Piper

396. “God’s work in us does not eliminate our work; it enables it. We work because he is the one at work in us. Therefore, the fight for joy is possible because God is fighting for us and through us.”

— John Piper

397. “The fears that the few good things that make you happy are slipping through your fingers, and the frustrations that the bad things you hate about yourself or your situation can’t be changed – these fears and these frustrations are what Christmas came to destroy.”

— John Piper

398. “There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. C. S. LEWIS.”

— John Piper

399. “The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases – or any other way – is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long – like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.”

— John Piper

400. “God is committed to rewarding those acts of the human heart that signify human helplessness and hope in God.”

— John Piper