John Piper Quotes

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.