Quotes about Strength
Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.
— John Piper
The one thing God is doing in all of redemptive history is to show forth his mercy in such a way that the greatest number of people will throughout eternity delight in him with all their heart, strength, and mind.
— John Piper
We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.
— John Piper
As we grow older and our bodies weaken, we must learn from the Puritan pastor Richard Baxter (who died in 1691) to redouble our efforts to find strength from spiritual joy, not natural supplies.
— John Piper
When you bow down your head to pray Let the first thing that you say Be a lowly word and meek: "I admit that I am weak.
— John Piper
God and his word are the reality we need -- the Rock under our feet.
— John Piper
The fight for joy in Christ is not a fight to soften the cushion of Western comforts. It is a fight for strength to live a life of self-sacrificing love.
— John Piper
If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
— John Piper
But not only does the pursuit of joy in God give strength to endure; it is the key to breaking the power of sin on our way to heaven.
— John Piper
When I am anxious about getting old, I battle unbelief with the promise: "Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save" (Isaiah 46:4).
— John Piper
The cure for wimpy Christians is weighty doctrine!
— John Piper
The hope of heaven brought him joy, and joy brought him strength, and so, like John Calvin before him and George Whitefield after him (two verifiable examples) and, it would seem, like the apostle Paul himself ââ'¬Ã‚¦ he was astoundingly enabled to labor on, accomplishing more than would ever have seemed possible in a single lifetime."4 But
— John Piper