Quotes about Devotion
God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God, there is nothing in our mind to awaken love. If love does not come from knowing God, there is no point in calling it love for God .
— John Piper
God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.
— John Piper
Are you able—theologically, personally, and resource-wise—to be harmoniously, sweetly, and deeply in love with Jesus together in marriage?
— John Piper
A famous cigarette billboard pictures a curly-headed, bronze-faced, muscular macho with a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. The sign reads 'Where a man belongs.' That is a lie. Where a man belongs is at the bedside of his children, leading in devotion and prayer. Where a man belongs is leading his family to the house of God. Where a man belongs is up early and alone with God seeking vision and direction for the family.
— John Piper
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