John Piper Quotes

God can be found only in suffering and the cross.

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. 'Love never faileth.

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to know that we are saved by the sufferings of Christ; more, it is to know the love of Christ Who underwent suffering and death in order to save us. It is, then, to know Christ.

Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.

The only way to heal is to look at the Cross, to look at God Who takes upon Himself our sins: my sin is there.

The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.

Another way Christ affects us is by inspiring our gratitude. He left the glories of heaven in order to become our Savior, and when we recognize that sacrifice, we are filled with thankfulness and praise.

God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.

As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.

God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.

Think lightly of hell, and you will think lightly of the cross. Think little of the sufferings of lost souls, and you will soon think little of the Savior who delivers them.

Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.

Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.