Quotes about Reflection
Thinking is one of the important ways that we put the fuel of knowledge on the fires of worship and service to the world.
— John Piper
Authenticity begins when you start by admitting that you are inauthentic.
— John Piper
When you bow down your head to pray Let the first thing that you say Be a lowly word and meek: "I admit that I am weak.
— John Piper
We do not know ourselves aright, Until we have the Father's light. We think we know ourselves and groan, Until we know as we are known
— John Piper
God designed human fatherhood to be a portrait of himself.
— John Piper
the bottom line of assurance comes when you stop analyzing and you look to Christ and you look and you look and you look until Christ himself in his glory and his sufficiency by reflex, as it were, awakens a self-forgetful "Yes!" to him.
— 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
will think of the Lord in what we are doing at work. We will ask, Why would the Lord like this done? How would the Lord like this done? When would the Lord like this done? Will the Lord help me do this? What effect will this have for the Lord's honor? Being a Christian at work means radically Lord-centered living.
— John Piper
Therefore Christian Hedonism is passionately opposed to all attempts to drive a wedge between deep thought and deep feeling. It rejects the common notion that profound reflection dries up fervent affection. It resists the assumption that intense emotion thrives only in the absence of coherent doctrine.
— John Piper
Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you" (1Chronicles 29:14). This is the way we should speak of fasting. There is no ground of boasting here. Who am I that I should be able to fast? Nobody. There is nothing in me that would choose this for your glory apart from your transforming grace.
— John Piper
Student—"any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully.
— John Piper
If we come with a chip on our shoulder that there is nothing we can learn or no benefit we can get, we will prove ourselves infallible on both counts.
— John Piper