Quotes about Redemption
What makes born-again people glad is not at bottom that they have God's gifts but that they have God.
— John Piper
The coming of Jesus was a search-and-save mission. "The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.
— John Piper
My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water" (Jer. 2:13).
— John Piper
That is not just the story of Israel. It's the story of humanity. It's the story of my life and your life.
— John Piper
For it appears, that all that is ever spoken of in the Scripture as an ultimate end of God's works, is included in that one phrase, the glory of God; which
— John Piper
The universe exists primarily to display the wealth of the glory of the mercy of God for the enjoyment of his redeemed people from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
— John Piper
In fact the astonishing thing is that every good deed we do in dependence on Him to "pay Him back" does just the opposite; it puts us ever deeper in debt to His grace.
— John Piper
the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.
— John Piper
Only exult in the cross of Christ. Only rejoice in the cross of Christ. Paul says: let this be your single passion, your single boast and joy and exultation
— John Piper
Labor, therefore, to fill your hearts with the cross of Christ . . . that there may be no room for sin.
— John Piper
A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh, loving us and dying for our redemption; and who is so affected by a sense of the love of this incarnate God as to be constrained to make the will of Christ the rule of his obedience, and the glory of Christ the great end for which he lives.
— John Piper
May the one thing that you cherish, the one thing that you rejoice in and exult over, be the cross of Jesus Christ.
— John Piper