Quotes about Devotion
God is not worshiped where He is not treasured and enjoyed.
- John Piper
The final answer is that God rewards fasting because fasting expresses the cry of the heart that nothing on the earth can satisfy our souls besides God. God must reward this cry because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
- John Piper
He loved us to the uttermost. And let us be so moved by this love that it becomes our own.
- John Piper
Honoring Christ, magnifying Christ, making much of Christ. That was the meaning of Paul's life. It should be the meaning of ours. And Paul prays it will be the meaning of his death as well. We live and we die to make much of Christ.
- John Piper
Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.
- John Piper
Life is too precious to squander on trivial things. Grant us, Lord, the unswerving resolve to pray and live with David Brainerd's urgency: "Oh, that I might never loiter on my heavenly journey!
- John Piper
if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.
- John Piper
Doing right for right's sake is atheistic.Christians should do what God says is right because in doing it we enjoy more of God.
- John Piper
Not to enjoy God is to dishonor Him.
- John Piper
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)
- John Piper
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
Resolved: To live with all my might while I do live." And
- John Piper