849 Quotes by John Piper

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

If we don’t want God above all things we have not been converted by the gospel.

If gratitude for the gospel is not rooted in the glory of God beneath the gift of God, it is disguised idolatry.

God’s glory consists much in the fact that He is happy beyond all our imagination.

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.

Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God, there is nothing in our mind to awaken love. If love does not come from knowing God, there is no point in calling it love for God.