Quotes about Belief
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.
— John Piper
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.
— John Piper
Faith is not saving faith if it tries to trust Christ for the wrong things. So this makes clear that trust per se, without reference to what we trust him for, is not the essence of a saving relationship to Christ.
— John Piper
If you are like me, you may have strong longings from time to time for the mighty working of the holy Spirit in your life...But what I have found most often in my own life is the failure to open myself to the full measure of the Spirit's work by believing the promises of God.
— John Piper
This is the message of the coronavirus: Stop relying on yourselves and turn to God. You cannot even stop death. God can raise the dead.
— John Piper
Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.
— John Piper
Truth is grounded in God's Word, not our works.
— John Piper
when Paul says in Romans 4:3, 5, 9, and 22 that 'faith is counted as righteousness,' he does not mean that our faith is our righteousness. He means that our faith unites us to Christ so that God's righteousness in Christ is reckoned to us.
— 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
For in the end, it is not Edwards or Piper or any other man who compels true faith, but God himself.
— John Piper
A non-treasured Christ is a nonsaving Christ.
— John Piper
No man can have the least ground of assurance that he hath seen Christ and his glory by faith, without some effects of it in changing him into his likeness. John Owen
— John Piper