John Piper Quotes

Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief.

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.

God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down

The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.

All my life, from birth, it's been a fight. And it always seemed to be another man's war. I always seemed to be fighting for someone else. But it always came back to me. The Word says we're born into sin, and sin always comes back to war.

We've got to remember the Book says the devil "walketh about the earth to and fro seeking who he may devour", and he nearly got me and he had me for a while. It didn't mean that I was no longer a Christian or that God had disowned me.

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

You must never tire fighting Satan.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.

Automatically thinking ‘everything that happens is God’s will’ is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn’t fighting the Father’s will when He raised the dead.

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.

God is always with the strongest battalions.

To live is to war with trolls.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.