John Piper Quotes

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

What's at the heart of my faith is a belief that there's a creator. That we're all children of the same God. And that, fundamentally, the relationship you have with your spouse is important and eternal.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

God is very important to me. I love her.

Freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

Everybody has their thing that they're truthful about. My thing is just a love of God... so that's what I'm going to do.

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.

To love God is something greater than to know Him.

I will always respect the beliefs of fellow Christians who aren't comfortable reading or writing explicit love scenes, but I believe romances are beautiful and spiritual books that celebrate the best of what love has to offer and mirror the love God has for his children.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

I love Jesus.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.