Quotes about Love
Are you able—theologically, personally, and resource-wise—to be harmoniously, sweetly, and deeply in love with Jesus together in marriage?
— John Piper
It is only a matter of time till the reality of the rest of the world comes home. And all the while we are called by Christ to go to them, love them, sacrifice for them, bring the gospel to them. The Great Commission is not child's play. It is costly. Very costly.
— John Piper
Forgiveness is essentially God's way of removing the great obstacle to our fellowship with him. By canceling our sin and paying for it with the death of his own Son, God opens the way for us to see him and know him and enjoy him forever. Seeing and savoring him is the goal of forgiveness. Soul-satisfying fellowship with our Father is the aim of the cross. If we love being forgiven for other reasons alone, we are not forgiven, and we will waste our lives.
— John Piper
God loves us by liberating us from the bondage of self so that we can enjoy knowing and admiring him forever.
— John Piper
Jesus calls for violence against our own lust because he loves our true and lasting joy.
— John Piper
To know that our Father in heaven has ordained our pain is not a comfoftable truth, but it is comforting. That our pain has a loving and wise and all-powerful purpose behind it is better than any other view--weak God, cruel God, bumbling God, no God. To know that in his hands "this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison" (2 Corinthians 4:17) is profoundly reassuring.
— John Piper
The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse.
— John Piper
God is not worshiped where He is not treasured and enjoyed.
— John Piper
Love is the overflow of joy in God that gladly meets the needs of others.
— John Piper
Love is helping people toward the greatest beauty, the highest value, the deepest satisfaction, the most lasting joy, the biggest reward, the most wonderful friendship, and the most overwhelming worship—love is helping people toward God.
— John Piper
He loved us to the uttermost. And let us be so moved by this love that it becomes our own.
— John Piper
Not to aim to show God is not to love, bc God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end.
— John Piper