Quotes by John Piper
John Piper (b. 1946) — Pastor, Theologe und Bestsellerautor · Reformierter Baptist / Evangelikal · USA
John Piper (* 1946) ist ein US-amerikanischer reformierter Theologe, Autor und langjähriger Pastor der Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis sowie Gründer der Lehrorganisation Desiring God. Er prägte das Konzept des „christlichen Hedonismus“, das Freude an Gott als Kern christlicher Frömmigkeit begreift, und gilt als einflussreiche Stimme der neo-calvinistischen Bewegung. Für Bibelleser vermittelt er ein theozentrisches Schriftverständnis mit starker Betonung der Souveränität Gottes, steht jedoch wegen seiner strikt komplementaristischen Haltung zu Geschlechterrollen und seiner Äußerungen zu Unterordnung in der Kritik.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Grace & Redemption, Faith & Trust, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Joy & Gratitude, Meaning & Identity, Guilt & Forgiveness, Suffering & the Question of God, Relationships & Family
Quotes by John Piper
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.
John Piper
There are rare and wonderful species of joy that flourish only in the rainy atmosphere of suffering.
John Piper
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
John Piper
For we brought nothing into the world and we cannot take anything out of the world (1 Tim. 6:7). There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.
John Piper
Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst.
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God wounded him (Jesus). God crushed him. For you and me. Through that we are free.
John Piper
God created you so that you could spend eternity honoring Him by continually delighting in Him.
John Piper
The biblical mandate for spouses is to seek their own joy in the joy of the partner.
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The only sin we can overcome is a sin already forgiven.
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Christ is imperishably glorious and imperishably precious. That is why he is worth the fight.
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Christ is our attorney and His portfolio is His propitiation. He stands before His Father in heaven, and every time we sin, He doesn’t make a new propitiation. He doesn’t die again and again. Instead He opens his portfolio and lays the exhibits of Good Friday on the bench before the Judge. Photographs of the crown of thorns, the lashing, the mocking soldiers, the agonies of the cross, and the final cry of victory: It is finished.
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Every good deed we do in dependence on God does just the opposite of paying Him back; it puts us ever deeper in debt to His grace. And that is exactly where God wants us to be through all eternity.
John Piper
[God] commands us to let Him work for us before commanding us to work for Him.
John Piper
God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god.
John Piper
The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy.
John Piper
The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.
John Piper
Sleep is a parable that God is God and we are mere men. God handles the world quite nicely while a hemisphere sleeps. Sleep is like a broken record that comes around with the same message every day: Man is not sovereign. Man is not sovereign. Man is not sovereign. Don’t let the lesson be lost on you. God wants to be trusted as the great worker who never tires and never sleeps. He is not nearly so impressed with our late nights and early mornings as He is with the peaceful trust that casts all anxieties on Him and sleeps.
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The confidence that a sovereign God governs for your good over all the pain and all the pleasure you will experience is an incomparable refuge, security, hope and power for your life.
John Piper
“All things are possible with God!” – in front the words give hope, and behind they give humility. They are the antidote to despair and pride.
John Piper
Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God.
John Piper
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon. Therefore the effort we make to obey God is not an effort done in our own strength, but in the strength which God supplies.
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If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.
John Piper
Joy originates in God. It comes through Jesus His Son. And it is the fruit of his Spirit. Those who embrace Jesus as their Savior and treasure, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of the Father, enter into that Trinitarian joy.
John Piper
Staying married, therefore, is not mainly about staying in love. It is about keeping covenant. “Till death do us part” or “As long as we both shall live” is a sacred covenant promise – the same kind Jesus made with His bride when He died for her.
John Piper
That’s what I think fasting is at heart. It’s an intensification of prayer. It’s a physical explanation point at the end of the sentence, “We hunger for you to come in power.” It’s a cry with your body, “I really mean it, Lord! This much, I hunger for you.”
John Piper
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.
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The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.
John Piper
The Christian Gospel is about “the glory of Christ,” not about me. And when it is – in some measure – about me, it is not about my being made much of by God, but about God mercifully enabling me to enjoy making much of Him forever.
John Piper
The command is, Cast your anxiety on God. The promise is, God cares for you [1 Pet. 5:7].
John Piper
The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe–the glorification of the grace and power of his Son–the grace and power that bore him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.
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The gospel of Christ crucified for our sins is the foundation of our lives. Marriage exists to display it. And when marriage breaks down, the gospel is there to forgive and heal and sustain until He comes, or until He calls.
John Piper
The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.
John Piper
The only sinner who can successfully battle his sins is a justified sinner. In other words, you fight against sexual sins from relationship, not for a relationship.
John Piper
The purpose of the Lord’s Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.
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The Word of God is creative. It is a hammer that crushes the hardness of our insubordination. It is medicine that heals the broken-hearted. And it is light that gives us guidance and hope on our way.
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There are things to see in the Word of God that our eyes can only see through the lens of tears.
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When our back is to the breathtaking beauty of God, we cast a shadow on the earth and fall in love with it.
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Praying in faith does not mean that everything we ask for will happen. It means trusting that God will hear and help in the best way.
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Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
John Piper
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