John Piper Quotes

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the heart of a beloved pulpiteer or spiritual life coach have no real power against such darkness. We need preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ who know the Scriptures, and by God's grace face any culture with the cry, 'Thus saith the Lord!'

… they will be led by devils at some point. Muslims should obey these leaders.

We must obey God and not man.

The Bible states it. It must be so.

With God on their side, Christians have no need for majoritarian politics, or for compromise and accomodation to reach their goal.

I'm going to do what God wants me to do.

We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ. A sense of peace will virtually always accompany His will and direction, even when the direction might not have been our personal preference.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken!

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

"President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.

All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.

Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

Never base your faith on your feelings. Base it on God's Word.

March on, the Lord is our General.

I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.