John Piper Quotes

Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture.

God put us on this earth with the purpose of loving.

Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.

Religion is using everything for God.

There's got to be something greater than us.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

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

Who are you going to live for - yourself or God?

At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.

All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.

Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose?

The universe does not make sense without God.

We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second

Jesus Christ had a sense of destiny.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

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.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.