John Piper Quotes

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.

Christianity has found its triumphs and shown its fruits in every nation and tribe upon the globe; and its results have been in every case the same. Virtue, social order, prosperity, blessedness, the elevation and improvement, in all respects, of the human life, are the uniform and exclusive inheritance of those who receive the gospel.

The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you.

We must learn to share the gospel in ways that show it is both GOOD and NEWS. The gospel is about what God has done for us and what we can become in Christ

Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.

Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news - the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.

The Gospel is ‘Good News’, not ‘Good History’, because when it’s preached, it happens.

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

God decided when we would be born and when we would be born again. We have the Spirit and the Gospel. To think that we deserve to live in different times is to tell God that we deserve a better mission field than the one He has given us.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

I'm a representative of something that's greater than myself. I'm not just representing myself or my country: I'm representing Christ and what He's done through me.

Jesus meets the physical needs of kids but also tells them how to save their soul.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

Gospel in its definition is good news.

I found my identity in Christ. When everything else around me was falling down I found my identity in God.

The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life.

To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.

Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.