John Piper Quotes

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.

Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.

I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil.

Confidently receive God's abundant blessings. Think abundance, prosperity, and the best of everything.

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

When you're blessed, the haters come out. When you wear God's blessings well, don't be surprised if it draws jealousy out on people.

I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.

God wants to increase you financially, by giving you promotions, fresh ideas and creativity

y feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders.

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.

There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold together.

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.