Quotes about Life
Normal Christian life is a process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. It is vulnerable to satan's attacks.
— John Piper
Every breath we take is a gift of grace. Every heartbeat, undeserved. Life and death are finally in the hands of God:
— John Piper
Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain.
— John Piper
A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.
— John Piper
God's reality is overwhelmingly intrusive in all the details of life.
— John Piper
What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive to be bitter.
— John Piper
The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.
— John Piper
We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.
— John Piper
Cancer does not win if we die. It wins if we fail to cherish Christ.
— John Piper
God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion, namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.
— John Piper
Delighting in God was not a mere preference or option in life; it was our joyful duty and should be the single passion of our lives.
— John Piper
We may think we are centering our lives on God when we are really making Him a means to self-esteem.
— John Piper