Quotes about Sacrifice
When God put Christ in our condemned place, he did this not only to secure heaven, but to secure holiness. Or even more precisely, not only to secure our life in paradise, but also to secure our love for people.
— John Piper
In dying he satisfied the claims of sin; and in living he satisfies the claims of God.
— John Piper
Therefore everything that you enjoy in Christ - as a Christian, as a person who trusts Christ - is owing to the death of Christ.
— John Piper
Now we see that every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.
— John Piper
May our light shine in this world so that people see you in our sacrificial deeds of love and our compromising words of truth and give glory to your hallowed name, Father
— John Piper
If you want to fight sin by taking bread away from your own mouth, then put it in the mouth of the poor. Then we will see if you are really fasting for righteousness'sake.
— John Piper
If we live twenty-nine years or if we live ninety-nine years, would not any hardships be worth the saving of one person from the eternal torments of hell for the everlasting enjoyment of the glory of God?
— John Piper
What does it mean to be a Christian? Charles Hodge, one of the great nineteenth-century Reformed theologians, sees the answer in this text: "It is being so constrained by a sense of the love of our divine Lord to us, that we consecrate our lives to him."6
— John Piper
Labor, therefore, to fill your hearts with the cross of Christ . . . that there may be no room for sin.
— John Piper
May the one thing that you cherish, the one thing that you rejoice in and exult over, be the cross of Jesus Christ.
— John Piper
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
— John Piper
It is better to lose your life than to waste it.
— John Piper