Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Piper

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

John Piper

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

John Piper

Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

John Piper

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

John Piper

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

John Piper

One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

John Piper

The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question is, 'Where are there people's who don't have any Christians in them or don't have a church strong enough to do the neighbor evangelism that we can do if we just want to do it?' That's the missionary question.

John Piper

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

John Piper

I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.

John Piper

The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the world how they are loved by Christ.

John Piper

There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

John Piper

We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

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 in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.

John Piper

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

John Piper

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

John Piper

To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

John Piper

My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?

John Piper

Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.

John Piper

Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

John Piper

Go, send, or disobey.

John Piper

Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ.

John Piper

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

John Piper

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

John Piper

CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

John Piper

The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

John Piper

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.

I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question as I revealed before the court but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.

Martin Luther

Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

Martin Luther

If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

Martin Luther

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

Martin Luther

Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.

Martin Luther

Christians are rare people on earth.

Martin Luther

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.