Top 450 John Piper Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.”

— John Piper

402. “There is no point in romanticizing other religions that reject the deity and saving work of Christ. They do not know God. And those who follow them tragically waste their lives.”

— John Piper

403. “The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature.”

— John Piper

404. “We Boast Best in the Cross When We Bear It.”

— John Piper

405. “This sounds very strange. Most of us think serving God is a totally positive thing; we have not considered that serving God may be an insult to him.”

— John Piper

406. “One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.”

— John Piper

407. “Grace is free because God would not be the infinite, self-sufficient God He is if he were constrained by anything outside Himself.”

— John Piper

408. “Christmas split history. Foretastes of the future abound. Drink deeply on what he achieved for us. And be filled with hope for all that is coming.”

— John Piper

409. “This is the message of the coronavirus: Stop relying on yourselves and turn to God. You cannot even stop death. God can raise the dead.”

— John Piper

410. “Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is the notion of morality as the disinterested performance of duty. But when worship is reduced to disinterested duty, it ceases to be worship. For worship is a feast.”

— John Piper

411. “He loved us to the uttermost. And let us be so moved by this love that it becomes our own.”

— John Piper

412. “No One Is a Relativist at the Bank.”

— John Piper

413. “God’s purpose in permitting your sin was to give his people the pleasure of seeing and savoring the glory of his grace in the inexpressible suffering and triumphs of his Son.”

— John Piper

414. “And what we have seen is that this embracing of suffering is not just an accompaniment of our witness to Christ; it is the visible expression of it. Our sufferings make Christ’s sufferings known so that people can see the kind of love Christ offers. We complete Christ’s afflictions by providing what they do not have, namely, a personal, vivid presentation to those who do not see Christ suffer in person. The.”

— John Piper

415. “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

416. “The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.”

— John Piper

417. “Jesus calls for violence against our own lust because he loves our true and lasting joy.”

— John Piper

418. “In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will be our delight, our joy. This experience is humanly impossible. No ordinary person can speak in truth like this. If God alone is enough to support joy when all else is lost, it is a miracle of grace.”

— John Piper

419. “The foundation of moral life as God’s truthfulness.”

— John Piper

420. “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

421. “O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego if we know that others will find out about them and think well of us. It is a deadly addiction for esteem that we have.”

— John Piper

422. “He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.”

— John Piper

423. “When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.”

— John Piper

424. “Seeing the glory of Jesus Christ in the gospel awakens joy.”

— John Piper

425. “No man,” Wilberforce wrote, “has a right to be idle.” “Where is it,” he asked, “that in such a world as this, health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?”

— John Piper

426. “God’s reality is overwhelmingly intrusive in all the details of life.”

— John Piper

427. “I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than by faith to die with Christ to our old seductions, that is, to gain a distaste for them because of a superior satisfaction in God.”

— John Piper

428. “God and his word are the reality we need – the Rock under our feet.”

— John Piper

429. “God and God alone is the final, ultimate goal of our quest. All that God is for us in Jesus is the Object of our quest for joy. When I speak of fighting for joy, I mean joy in God, not joy without reference to God. When I speak of longing for happiness, I mean happiness in all that God is for us in Jesus, not happiness as physical or psychological experience apart from God.”

— John Piper

430. “If we are Christ’s, then what befalls us is for His glory and for our good, whether it is caused by enzymes or by enemies.”

— John Piper

431. “Racial and ethnic segragtion is a gospel issue! Cephas’ fear and wihdrawal from fellowship across ethnic lines was “not in step with the truth of the gospel.” Christ had died to tear down this wall.”

— John Piper

432. “My biggest concern about the effects of the prosperity movement is that it diminishes Christ by making him less central and less satisfying than his gifts.”

— John Piper

433. “God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about him. Indeed.”

— John Piper

434. “A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn’t know Clark Kent is on board.”

— John Piper

435. “If we desire that there be no boasting except in the cross, then we must live near the cross-indeed we must live on the cross.”

— John Piper

436. “O, Lord, how devious we can be! Our hearts are deceitful, and we look quickly for reasons to believe that our disobedience is not serious. Humble us before the truth that there is one Judge and one God whose fellowship and fatherly delight is more precious than all the pleasures of sin. Forbid that we would forfeit this fortune – even for a season – while justifying our sin by thinking that it is small and partial surrounded by other good deeds.”

— John Piper

437. “Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.”

— John Piper

438. “It is true that God can be known and enjoyed in every legitimate vocation; but when he deploys you from one place to the next, he offers fresh and deeper drinking at the fountain of his fellowship. God seldom calls us to an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of his sustaining grace.”

— John Piper

439. “If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.”

— John Piper

440. “Now comes the really amazing part. What is offered to the world, to everyone who hears the gospel, is not a love or saving achievement designed for all and therefore especially for no one; but rather, what is offered is the absolute fullness of all that Christ achieved for his elect.”

— John Piper

441. “The best thing in the universe is to be united to Christ. To be in Christ. To enjoy union with Christ.”

— John Piper

442. “Rejoicing without the content of Christ does not honor Christ.”

— John Piper

443. “Tell people the good news from a heart of love and a life of service.”

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

445. “Are you able – theologically, personally, and resource-wise – to be harmoniously, sweetly, and deeply in love with Jesus together in marriage?”

— John Piper

446. “Jesus warns that the word of God, the gospel, which is meant to give us life, can be choked to death by riches.”

— John Piper

447. “This is why it is often called sovereign grace: it raises the dead. The dead do not raise themselves. God does by his grace. And it is this “glorious grace” that will be praised for all eternity.”

— John Piper

448. “Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.”

— John Piper

449. “We ascribe to God. We don’t add to Him.”

— John Piper

450. “A famous cigarette billboard pictures a curly-headed, bronze-faced, muscular macho with a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. The sign reads ‘Where a man belongs.’ That is a lie. Where a man belongs is at the bedside of his children, leading in devotion and prayer. Where a man belongs is leading his family to the house of God. Where a man belongs is up early and alone with God seeking vision and direction for the family.”

— John Piper