Quotes about Meaning
The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, "What is permissible?"—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn't want a minimal life. I didn't want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.
— John Piper
Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
— John Piper
But we also need stories. Great stories.
— John Piper
The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.
— John Piper
Therefore, at the heart of the meaning of work is creativity. If you are God, your work is to create out of nothing. If you are not God, but like God—that is, if you are human—your work is to take what God has made and shape it and use it to make him look great.
— John Piper
Honoring Christ, magnifying Christ, making much of Christ. That was the meaning of Paul's life. It should be the meaning of ours. And Paul prays it will be the meaning of his death as well. We live and we die to make much of Christ.
— John Piper
The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for.
— John Piper
Marriage is patterned after Christ's covenant relationship to his redeemed people, the church. And therefore, the highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display. That is why marriage exists. If you are married, that is why you are married. If you hope to be, that should be your dream.
— John Piper
This is the meaning of Christmas. Oh, that God would waken your heart to your deep need for mercy as a sinner! And then ravish your heart with a great Savior, Jesus Christ. And then release your tongue to praise him and your hands to make his mercy shine in yours.
— John Piper
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. C. S. LEWIS
— John Piper
We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.
— John Piper
Theology is a means to enjoying and worshiping God, or it is useless.
— John Piper