John Piper Quotes

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Justice is truth in action.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

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

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

You have to do what is real and what is right and what is good and what you believe in. It doesn't mean it's always going to work. It doesn't. But when it does, it is truthful and forever.

I'm not a religious person in the regular sense, but in the Bible you're not allowed to steal, you're not allowed to lie and you're not allowed to feel you're above other people.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Justice is the truth in action.

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Faith is not to be kept with him who keeps not faith with God

The road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.