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" There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity. "
John Piper
Beauty
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ. "
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" 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. "
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" God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. "
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" I believe God has a future for ethnic Israel. "
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" Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels. "
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" Sin carries in it its own misery. "
John Piper
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" 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. "
John Piper
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" It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people. "
John Piper
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" The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve. "
John Piper
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Someone
" 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. "
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Name
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" One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work. "
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" When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.' "
John Piper
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Think
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" 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. "
John Piper
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" The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it. "
John Piper
Bible
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Authority
" 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. "
John Piper
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Realize
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" Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections. "
John Piper
Realize
Must
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" God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything. "
John Piper
Anything
Us
Owe
" I want to learn from everybody. "
John Piper
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Want
Learn
" Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see. "
John Piper
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Says
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" My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around. "
John Piper
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Mouth
" 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. "
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" Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways. "
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Hearts
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" The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. "
John Piper
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" God tests His people through hardship. "
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" When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine. "
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Life
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" God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings. "
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Good
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" Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good. "
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You
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" Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls. "
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