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The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.
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We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.
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Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.
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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.
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Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
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I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.
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We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
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Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered
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Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.
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Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us; abundance for others.
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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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Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.
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The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.
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This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
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In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.
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If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.
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Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
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Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for more grace - future grace - and thus magnifying the infinite resources of God's love and power.
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When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news
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We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.
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Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.
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The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.
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The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.
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God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.
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God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.
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The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
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Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.
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I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.
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The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.
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If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Born:
January 11, 1946
(age 78)
Bio:
John Stephen Piper is founder and teacher of desiringgod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Known for:
Desiring God (1986)
Don't waste your life
The pleasures of God (1991)
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