John Piper Quotes

By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.

The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.'

Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

When we obey God, we're not doing it for God... we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

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

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.

May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

My Lord does not want to know what I have done for Him. He just wants to know how I am. If he hears from me that I am happy, then he himself becomes exceedingly happy. In umistakable terms He tells me that my happiness is His real and only Satisfaction.

We simply want to follow God because we knows of the happiness it will bring, that's the reason that we chose to be open about our beliefs.

We have God's joy in our blood.

You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.

God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy.