John Piper Quotes

I am athirst for God, the living God.

When you yearn for God with intensity, He will come to you.

The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was created for the glory of Christ. Which means that bread magnifies Christ in two ways: by being eaten with gratitude for his goodness, and by being forfeited out of hunger for God himself. When we eat, we taste the emblem of our heavenly food—the Bread of Life. And when we fast we say, “I love the Reality above the emblem.” In the heart of the saint both eating and fasting are worship. Both magnify Christ.

Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.

Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind of pleasing pain. When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable and my thirstings after holiness more unquenchable.

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

Oh, to know God's private address.

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

Remember when you got into the word and it wasn’t because you had a sermon to prepare or you needed to learn some things or there were some doctrinal problems or you knew that to progress as a useful servant you had to continue on in the things of the word of God? Do you remember when you just got into the word because you wanted to hear something from God? You wanted to know something about Him. Do you remember when you just prayed because of Him? Is your heart burning for Him?

How many people have you made homesick for God?

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.