Quotes about Purpose
God's work does not make our work unnecessary; it makes it possible.
— John Piper
The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. And? Like ham and eggs? Sometimes you glorify God and sometimes you enjoy Him? Sometimes He gets glory, sometimes you get joy?
— John Piper
The Bible itself shows that our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God's infinite worth and beauty would be exalted in the everlasting, white-hot worship of the blood-bought bride of Christ from every people, language, tribe, and nation.
— John Piper
God did not create the world to keep his glory invisible, and he did not re-create Christians to keep our passion for his glory invisible
— John Piper
Would you want to go to heaven if God were not there, only His gifts?
— John Piper
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
— John Piper
The great old catechism asks, "What is the chief end of man?" and answers, "Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." Enjoying God is the way to glorify God, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
— John Piper
I exist to magnify Jesus Christ. That is, I am on this planet for one ultimate reason: to do whatever I can to make Jesus Christ known and treasured—a knowing and a treasuring that accords with his infinite beauty and immeasurable worth.
— 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
Christ is the glory we were made to see. His light alone will fill us and give the light of life and meaning to every part of our lives. And
— John Piper
God has revealed his purposeful sovereignty over good and evil in order to humble human pride, intensify human worship, shatter human hopelessness, and put ballast in the battered boat of human faith, steel in the spine of human courage, gladness in the groans of affliction, and love in the heart that sees no way forward.
— John Piper
Now we see that every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.
— John Piper