John Piper Quotes

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blasphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if He is as little as that, He is beneath it.

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence.

Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.

I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God.

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

The message is that I was reminding myself and informing others of the fact that God has always been good to me. No matter what you're going through, God is always with us. Life is a journey.

No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical proposition, while the other asserts that his existence is not demonstrable to the intellect.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

God is not subject to the dimension of time. He dwells in eternity.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?

Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

If we grant freedom to man, there is an end to the omniscience of God.