John Piper Quotes

One of my passions is helping people understand the Word. I think the most important thing we should be thinking about is who created us and how we were created to live. So I thought that I want to spend a lot of my time actually studying God's Word.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.

I'm a believer in God, I'm a believer that he puts us where he wants us to be.

I don't think I have any particular problem with God.

Humanity is the child of religion.

Mission exists because worship doesn't.

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.

I speak to God every day.

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.

What's at the heart of my faith is a belief that there's a creator. That we're all children of the same God. And that, fundamentally, the relationship you have with your spouse is important and eternal.

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.