Quotes about God
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.
- John Piper
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.
- John Piper
Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.
- John Piper
We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.
- John Piper
The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.
- John Piper
God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
- John Piper
God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.
- John Piper
Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions
- John Piper
Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.
- John Piper
In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).
- John Piper
The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.
- John Stott
He who truly seeks God has found Him.
- John Wooden