Quotes about John Piper
I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.
— John Piper
The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.
— John Piper
Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.
— John Piper
God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.
— 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.
— John Piper
The horror of Hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.
— John Piper
The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is
— John Piper
I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.
— John Piper
Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.
— John Piper
My experience is that the absence of firm prior resolve results in regular rationalization.
— John Piper
Don't leave Christmas in the abstract. Your sin. Your conflict with the Devil. Your victory. He came for this.
— John Piper
If gratitude for the gospel is not rooted in the glory of God beneath the gift of God, it is disguised idolatry.
— John Piper