Quotes about Unity
when Paul says in Romans 4:3, 5, 9, and 22 that 'faith is counted as righteousness,' he does not mean that our faith is our righteousness. He means that our faith unites us to Christ so that God's righteousness in Christ is reckoned to us.
— John Piper
Glorifying God and enjoying Him were one end in their minds, not two.
— John Piper
God does not intend to replace us when we are united to Christ; he intends to renew us and empower us and guide us.
— John Piper
Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.
— John Piper
In other words, the covenant involved in leaving mother and father and holding fast to a spouse and becoming one flesh is a portrayal of the covenant between Christ and his church. Marriage exists ultimately to display the covenant-keeping love between Christ and his church.
— John Piper
We humans have never had the resources in ourselves to love each other well across ethnic lines. There is too much selfishness in all of us.
— John Piper
The bloodline of Christ is deeper than the bloodlines of race.
— John Piper
The Christian's holiness and happiness in God are not two separate realities. Happiness in God is the essence of holiness.
— John Piper
God gets glory when two very different and very imperfect people forge a life of faithfulness in the furnace of affliction by relying on Christ.
— John Piper
The rejoicing of all peoples in God, and the magnifying of God's glory are one end, not two. Why
— John Piper
the world we live in is a world where only the gospel of Jesus Christ can bring the kind of racial and ethnic harmony that we were made to enjoy.
— John Piper
God's respect to the creature's good, and his respect to himself, is not a divided respect; but both are united in one, as the happiness of the creature aimed at is happiness in union with himself.
— John Piper