John Piper Quotes

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same.

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

I write all my sermons.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.

Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

I'm not only a Christian, but I'm a pastor of a church.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.

When I meet pastors, I'm not like, 'Hey, you should go out there and be a rapper.' Because for so many of us, I think it would just pull us away from our congregations too much to be able to serve them like we should.

My father was a religious leader in the community, and my sister is a pastor.

I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.

My job is to preach and preach and preach.

In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word