John Piper Quotes

When I finish a song, I thank God for bringing me through. You have to press on and know your calling. That's what I've been doing for all my life. I just went forward.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

Imagine that your life's efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.

Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven.

Our family was just really passionate about Jesus.

It represents a Bible verse I wear on my shoe. Philippians 4:13. It says 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' It's also my mantra, how I get up for games and why I play the way I do.

Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says.

[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.

Love elevates. Love is what you live for.

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is what I believe in. If you want to call it God or spirituality, that's all up to you. Basically I believe in something that's bigger than myself, and that gives my life meaning.

Jesus Christ had a sense of destiny.

Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.

God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

Don’t concern yourself with being right in others’ eyes. And don’t secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be vindicated. Instead, concentrate on obeying God in your own life and, when possible, helping others to obey Him as well. You don’t have to prove others wrong to continue on the course you know God has shown you.

I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was.

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.

The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.