John Piper Quotes

It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.

We have all fallen short of the glory of God.

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

Many without punishment, but none without sin.

I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.

In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.

When you refuse to teach on the radical depravity of men, it is an impossibility that you bring glory to God, His Christ, and His cross, because the cross of Jesus Christ and the glory thereof is most magnified when it's placed in front of the backdrop of our depravity!

Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin.

An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.