Quotes about Gospel
Not seeing the divine glory of Christ in the gospel is blameworthy. It is not an innocent blindness, but a culpable love of darkness. "They
- John Piper
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
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
To hear the gospel faithfully and fully presented is to be responsible to see divine glory.
- John Piper
The glory of Christ in the gospel is the decisive ground of saving faith because saving faith is the receiving of Christ as infinitely glorious and supremely valuable.
- John Piper
Only the gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage. Destroy self-exaltation and increase confidence. Destroy the pushiness of self-assertion and deliver from the paralysis of self-doubt.
- John Piper
If we don't want God above all things we have not been converted by the gospel.
- John Piper
the world we live in is a world where only the gospel of Jesus Christ can bring the kind of racial and ethnic harmony that we were made to enjoy.
- John Piper
What is needed is a miracle. I mean that literally. A supernatural in-breaking of God through the gospel of Christ. It is not even possible to describe the hope-filled relational dynamics that may happen when the gospel explodes in two hearts that bring such radically different experiences of sin and suffering to the relationship.
- John Piper
The gospel of the glory of Christ spreads better and flourishes more because of 6,500 languages, not in spite of them.
- John Piper
The faith that honors Christ is the faith that sees and savors his glory in all his works, especially the gospel.
- John Piper
the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.
- John Piper