Quotes about People
Our evangelistic task is not to persuade people that the gospel was made for their felt needs, but that they were made for the soul-satisfying glory of God in the gospel.
— John Piper
So the goal of spiritual leadership is to muster people to join God in living for God's glory.
— John Piper
This is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
— John Piper
The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil.
— John Piper
The goal of our mission is that people from all the nations worship the true God. But worship means cherishing the preciousness of God above all else, including life itself.
— John Piper
Not to pursue our joy in ministry is not to pursue the profit of our people...Begrudging service does not qualify as genuine love.
— John Piper
The further up 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, and that this aim is no other than the endless, ever-increasing joy of his people in that glory.
— John Piper
Books don't change people; paragraphs do; sometimes even sentences.
— John Piper
The universe exists primarily to display the wealth of the glory of the mercy of God for the enjoyment of his redeemed people from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
— John Piper
As the sin of Adam was legally and effectively the sin of his race; so the death of Christ was legally and effectively the death of his people."7 Since our death has already occurred, we do not bear that condemnation (Romans 8:1—3). That is the essence of the love of Christ for us. Through his own undeserved death, he died our well-deserved death and opened his future as our future.
— John Piper
Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
— John Piper
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
— John Quincy Adams