Quotes about Truth
I simply find it impossible to believe that the human drama of the centuries, with its quest for meaning and beauty and truth, has no deeper root than molecular mutations.
— John Piper
The Spirit inspired the Word and therefore He goes where the Word goes. The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.
— John Piper
If our effort to know God more clearly is not an effort to love him more dearly, it will be fatal.
— John Piper
The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.
— John Piper
Thinking is not just entertainment on the stage of life where nothing is real. It is really useful in knowing the God who is really there. It is useful in knowing what God has revealed about himself and about this world and how we should live in it.
— John Piper
It is possible to experience true divine wonders in your conversion but never to be taught a true description of what your experience is. Then someone starts to describe your experience in words you have never heard, and in ways you have never understood, and suddenly the strange words all sound exactly right.
— John Piper
For in the end, it is not Edwards or Piper or any other man who compels true faith, but God himself.
— John Piper
The most glorious thing about God is that he is so completely, fully self-sufficient that the glory of the fullness of his being overflows in truth and grace for his creatures. He doesn't need us. And therefore in his fullness he overflows for us. Such is the grace we receive at Christmas.
— John Piper
Everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed." Concealed sin keeps us from seeing the light of Christ.
— John Piper
Relativism, as we saw in the previous chapter, undermines that effort. It kidnaps the happy handmaiden of truth and makes her serve the pride and pleasure of pragmatists. Relativists don't pursue truth. They make the denial of truth serve them.
— John Piper
To hear the gospel faithfully and fully presented is to be responsible to see divine glory.
— John Piper
I have no sure sight of God's glory except through his word. The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.
— John Piper