John Piper Quotes

We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.

Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life.

Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.

But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.

There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

I always say God doesn't need me, but I need Him in my life to survive in this world and over temptation. That's Who keeps me humble every time.

Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would be in grave danger, the worst of it from the temptations of a terrible adversary. That is one of the reasons why the Savior has provided priesthood keys so that those with ears to hear and faith to obey could go to places of safety.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are too venomous, too underhand, too underground and too petty - I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

Being a Baptist won't keep you from sinning, but it'll sure as hell keep you from enjoying it.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.