John Piper Quotes

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

Each person we meet on a daily basis who does not know Christ is hell-bound. That may make some folks bristle-but it's a fact. When we refuse to warn people that their actions and lifestyles have eternal consequences, we're not doing them any favors. If everybody feels good about his or her sin, why would anyone repent?

As it was in the beginning, Is today official sinning, And shall be forever more.

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all profess belief in immortality, but the veneration paid to the first century of life is proof that they truly believe only in those hundred years, for they destine all the rest, throughout eternity, to rewarding or punishing what one did when alive.

We acknowledge the diversity of deeply held convictions within our fellowship even as we seek to interpret the Scriptures under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Many American Baptists believe that, biblically, human life begins at conception, that abortion is immoral and a destruction of a human being created in God's image … Many others believe that while abortion is a regrettable reality, it can be a morally acceptable action and they choose to act on the biblical principles of compassion and justice … and freedom of will. … Many gradations of opinion between these basic positions have been expressed within our fellowship.

The secular law has as its task not to turn the world lying in evil into the Kingdom of God, but to prevent it from turning into hell.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best.

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

Being good or evil has nothing to do with religion.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.

When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.

I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.

Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go.