Inspirational Quotes by John Piper
“This is why it is so essential that preaching be preoccupied not with the preacher or the listeners, but with Jesus. Only in perceiving him is there true power for change. Only through him and his gospel is our faith strengthened and renewed. And only in knowing and enjoying him is our soul truly satisfied.”
“God’s regular channels of grace, as we will see, are his voice, his ear, and his body.”
“As we have celebrated above, our God is lavish in his grace; he is free to liberally dispense his goodness without even the least bit of cooperation and preparation on our part, and often he does. But”
“David is writing a book to help you enjoy Jesus. In doing that, he is not trying to be nice. He’s trying to be nuclear. His way of thinking about enjoying Jesus is explosive. If you enjoy Jesus more than life (Matt. 10:38), you will live with a radical abandon for Jesus that will make the world wonder.”
“The primary mission of the Spirit—and his people—is to show that Jesus is more glorious than anyone or anything else. It cannot be done by those who find this world more enjoyable than Jesus. They make the world look great. Therefore, the ultimate aim of the Christian life—and the universe—hangs on the people of God enjoying the Son of God.”
“Work out your salvation, because God is at work in you” (see Phil. 2:12–13). God’s work does not make our work unnecessary; it makes it possible. “I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me” (1 Cor. 15:10). Grace does not just pardon our failures; it empowers our successes—like successfully enjoying Jesus more than life.”
“in the arena of work we are to seek more than profit, not other than profit. We are to seek profit in line with values. In our personal lives, we are to do many things for which we will never be repaid on this earth (Luke 14:12 – 14). This is sometimes true at work, but the chief thing that makes business business is that we seek the good of others in a way that is profitable.”
“Feeling busy is the reason you ought to plan; it indicates that you need planning all the more, not less.”
“Christian meditation is less about the posture of our bodies and more about the posture of our souls.”
“The narcissism that can be characteristic of romantic ideals—romantic ideals that can actually drive us away from our real partners into escapist and emotionally comforting reveries—can also cause us to replace the concrete relationships of our given contexts with idealized communities in which we can forgo the struggles associated with the transformation of actual communities and the need to adapt to and be vulnerable to others.14”
“[Jonathan] Edwards gets it. A rightly oriented Christianity causes us to care not only about ourselves and our families but also about our communities, cities, and society generally.”
“For the glory of God, the good of others, and the satisfaction of our souls, the aim of the Christian life is our coming to share in…Christlikeness or godliness—which is ‘holiness’ rightly understood.”
“And if our digital technology becomes our god, our wand of power, it will inevitably shape us into technicians who gain mastery over a dead world of conveniences. Aimlessly flicking through feeds and images for hours, we feel that we are in control of our devices, when we are really puppets being controlled by a lucrative industry.”
“The only way to make the right decisions is first to be the right kind of person (Rom. 12:1 – 2; 2 Peter 5:1 – 8).”
“Do my smartphone habits provide an easy escape from sobered thinking about my death, the return of Christ, and eternal realities? 5. Do my smartphone habits preoccupy me with the pursuit of worldly success? 6. Do my smartphone habits mute the sporadic leading of God’s Spirit in my life? 7. Do my smartphone habits preoccupy me with dating and romance? 8. Do my smartphone habits build up Christians and my local church? 9. Do my smartphone habits center on what is necessary to me and beneficial to others? 10. Do my smartphone habits disengage me from the needs of the neighbors God has placed right in front of me?”
“It is only in the absence of constant digital flattery that we can feel small and less significant, more human, liberated to encounter the world we are called to love.27 We inevitably grow blind to creation’s wonders when our attention is fixed on our attempt to craft the next scene in our “incessant autobiography.”28 Instead, says Crouch, “All true, lasting creativity comes from deep, risky engagement with the fullness of creation.”
“Tim Ferriss nails it when he says that “people are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.”
“When we live for what is visible and ignore what is invisible, we illustrate the definition of faithlessness.”
“You don’t want to be the one to plan your whole life, because God does a better job than you ever will. Again, there is a place for planning. But if your plans are never upset or disrupted, if all that happens to you is something you have planned, your productivity will be very limited. Some of the best, most productive moments in life are the things that we don’t plan — the surprises of life.”
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John Piper (1946 - Present)
is a Calvinistic Baptist Christian preacher and author currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His books include ECPA Christian Book Award winners Spectacular Sins, What Jesus Demands from the World, Pierced by the Word, and God's Passion for His Glory, and bestsellers Don't Waste Your Life and The Passion of Jesus Christ. The evangelical organization Desiring God is named for his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986).In 1980, after what he described as an "irresistible call of the Lord to preach", Piper became Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he has been ministering ever since. Piper hit the evangelical scene after the publication of his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986) and has continued to publish dozens of other books further articulating this theological perspective. In 1994, he founded Desiring God Ministries, which provides all of Piper's sermons and articles from the past three decades, and most of his books online free of charge, as well as offering for sale books, CDs, and DVDs and regularly hosting conferences.
John Stephen Piper is a Reformed and Baptist theologian, preacher, and author, currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books.
Piper's motto in ministry, preaching, and teaching is: "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." He calls those who live out this motto Christian Hedonists. Piper places a heavy emphasis on the objective and absolute nature of truth and is confident in the Christian's ability to grasp that truth through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.