John Piper Quotes

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

As soon as you're willing to humble yourself and say, God, please help - then you can find out that His strength really is perfect, that He really does care for you, that He does really want to meet your need.

We receive God's grace by humbly admitting that we need it.

Better to admit where you're not and ask God's help to get you where you need to be.

You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.

If life were stable, I'd never need God's help.

Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

No one can sense his own weakness is at least a small temptation is not allowed to afflict either his body or his soul. Then, comparing his weakness to the help of God, a man comes to know its magnitude. But whoever does not know that he needs God's help, let him make many prayers. Insofar as he multiplies them, in that measure will he be humbled.

Every day, no matter what I'm doing, I say, 'Lord, I'll do the best I can, and You do the rest.

I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day.

One of the best aids to freedom is asking God for a lot of help-and asking often.

It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!"

A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.

If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.

O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that there are many different people in the world with a variety of opinions and expectations. I will concentrate on being a God-pleaser and not a self-pleaser or man-pleaser. The rest I leave in Your hands lord. Grant me favor with You and with men and continue transforming me into the image of Your dear Son. Thank You Lord.

It’s not 'those who help themselves' whom God helps; it’s those who humble themselves.

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

All I really want - when I pray , I don't really ask for anything. All I want to do is God's will and make the best decisions I can. I don't go out and preach.

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.