Quotes about Passion
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
When you are deeply peaceful and confident that, because of Christ, God will bring you safely to his eternal kingdom and be the all-satisfying Treasure of your life forever, then you are free to see the truth, and love the truth, and speak the truth no matter what, and joyfully spread a passion for the truth whose name is Jesus.
— 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
Enjoying and displaying are both crucial. The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.
— John Piper
The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.
— John Piper
Was that a tragedy? Two lives, driven by one great passion, namely, to be spent in unheralded service to the perishing poor for the glory of Jesus Christ—even two decades after most of their American counterparts had retired to throw away their lives on trifles. No, that is not a tragedy. That is a glory. These lives were not wasted. And these lives were not lost. "Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it" (Mark 8:35).
— John Piper
He loved us to the uttermost. And let us be so moved by this love that it becomes our own.
— John Piper
If you have pity for perishing people and a passion for the reputation of Christ, you must care about world missions.
— John Piper
God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion, namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.
— John Piper
Delighting in God was not a mere preference or option in life; it was our joyful duty and should be the single passion of our lives.
— John Piper
The true dimensions of a soul are seen in its delights. Not what we dutifully will but what we passionately want reveals our excellence or evil.
— John Piper
Resolved: To live with all my might while I do live." And
— John Piper