Quotes about Perspective
This sounds very strange. Most of us think serving God is a totally positive thing; we have not considered that serving God may be an insult to him.
— John Piper
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
— John Piper
A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells. . . .' Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: 'Look, Lord. See my shells.' That is a tragedy.
— John Piper
The way we honor Christ in death is to treasure Jesus above the gift of life, and the way we honor Christ in life is to treasure Jesus above life's gifts.
— John Piper
An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.
— John Piper
He once said that "there are but two lessons for Christians to learn: the one is, to enjoy God in everything; the other is, to enjoy everything in God.
— John Piper
We know life is short and eternity is long. This eternal perspective does not take us out of the world. It gives us freedom from self-pity.
— John Piper
Mental health is, in great measure, the gift of self-forgetfulness. The reason is that introspection destroys what matters most to us- the authentic experience of great things outside ourselves.
— John Piper
When you are the majority ethnicity, nothing you do is ethnic. It's just the way it's done. When you are a minority, everything you do has color.
— John Piper
The coronavirus calls us to make God the all-important, pervasive reality in our lives. Our lives depend on him more than they depend on breath. And sometimes God takes our breath in order to throw us onto himself.
— John Piper
In every situation, God is always doing a thousand different things you cannot see and you do not know.
— John Piper
The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.
— John Piper