John Piper Quotes

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

I believe that God wants us to show respect.

All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.

It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.

Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Fear God and work hard.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

Praying in Jesus' name makes the distinction that all glory and honor belong to Christ, who is one with God the Father.

No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

Make God first priority. He's worth it!

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him.

I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.