Quotes about Influence
The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.
— John Piper
Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.
— John Piper
You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.
— John Piper
Steve Halliday believed in the book from the beginning. If he hadn't asked to see the sermons in 1983, there may be no Desiring God.
— John Piper
When the Bible uses the term heart, it means the causal core of your personhood. The heart is your directional system. The heart is your steering wheel. Your behavior isn't caused by the situations and relationships outside of you. This passage teaches that your experiences influence, but do not determine, your behavior. Your behavior is shaped and caused by how your heart reacts to and interacts with the situations and relationships that are outside of you.
— John Piper
You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.
— John Piper
Lord, let me make a difference for You that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.
— John Piper
Books don't change people; paragraphs do; sometimes even sentences.
— John Piper
Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
— John Piper
A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
— John Quincy Adams
Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.
— John Updike
Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.
— John Wesley