Quotes about Divine
All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
— John Piper
In the end, the only 'good name' that matters is not how men feel about us, but how God feels about us.
— John Piper
Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.
— John Piper
Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.
— John Piper
God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.
— John Piper
Every breath we take is a gift of grace. Every heartbeat, undeserved. Life and death are finally in the hands of God:
— John Piper
The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for.
— John Piper
We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.
— John Piper
So waiting is a holy work Of faith in God. Nor does there lurk Beneath the timing of his ways Some secret malice that displays Itself in holding back the flow Of future grace. God does not go From here to there by shortest routes; He makes a place for faith and doubts. Nor does he hasten on his way, But comes when it is best, today, Or maybe twenty years from now, Or more.
— John Piper
God's reality is overwhelmingly intrusive in all the details of life.
— John Piper
Therefore we should pray for each other the way Jesus prays for us in John 17:17-- "Sanctify them in the truth; thy Word is truth.
— John Piper
This is why it is often called sovereign grace: it raises the dead. The dead do not raise themselves. God does by his grace. And it is this "glorious grace" that will be praised for all eternity.
— John Piper