John Piper Quotes

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him.

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

Faith Words aren't just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Next to the acknowledgement of the existence of a Deity, there is no one principle of greater importance in religion, than a realizing belief of the divine government and superintending the affairs of the universe, providence, and intimately concerned in whatever happens to mankind, both as nations and kingdoms, and as individuals.

God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid.

Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.

There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.

I have to be very humble. I know that anything I do is through God. Through me, God can make a miracle. The most you can do is to think and create all love, all grace, all power, all health. When you do that, amazing things can happen. But the day I think that I'm doing a miracle myself is a foolish day for me.

People who couldn't walk, they'd come in wheelchairs, and he'd make them walk. It's just the power of God. It wasn't my dad; it's what God had instructed my dad to do.

Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.

God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain; surely He is mighty enough to light your path.

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.

It is really not what we have in our hand that gets the job done, but it is God's power filling what we have in our hand.

With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.