John Piper Quotes

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.

Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

Ryan is an amazing person. When I was his age, I wasn't thinking about giving someone a kidney. How do you ever repay someone for something like that? You can't. It's not like borrowing $20 from someone and telling them you're going to give it back. It's something that you can never repay someone for.

It took me a long time to not think of the universe as a judgmental debit-credit system. I haven't completely shaken it, but I no longer think that I am overdrawn with God. Grace is not something you earn; its always there. I find this idea a lot more fun.

I was given a gift to throw a baseball. I didn't do anything to deserve that.

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.

It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

I say salvation is the free gift of God. It is God's free grace, I preach unto you, not of works, lest anyone should boast. Jesus Christ justifies the ungodly. Jesus Christ passed by and saw you polluted with your blood and bid you live.

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less

Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

Grace is something you can never get but only be given.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.

It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

Grace is more than mercy and love. It super-adds to them. It denotes, not simply love, but the love of a sovereign, transcendent Superior. One that may do what He will. That may wholly choose whether He will love or no. Now God, who is an infinite Sovereign, who might have chosen whether ever He would love us or no; for Him to love us, this is Grace.

But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.