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All Quotes by author - John Piper

" As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning. "

" As much as we can, let's defend the truth by pointing to what the apostles taught, and let's call out sin by pointing to the inconsistencies between what we say we believe and what we do. "

" Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see. "

" Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. "

" Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good. "

" Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together. "

" Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed. "

" Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. "

" Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging. "

" God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings. "

" God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die. "

" God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity. "

" God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine. "

" God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that. "

" God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. "

" God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything. "

" God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute. "

" God tests His people through hardship. "

" God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover. "

" God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. "

" Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia. "

" Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture. "

" I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don't have significant relationships with most of my neighbors. "

" I believe God has a future for ethnic Israel. "

" I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me. "

" If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command. "

" I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God. "

" I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do. "

" I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid? "

" I owe my life and hope to the gospel. "

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