John Piper Quotes

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

I can't change what the word of God says.

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

There must be no inventing or recounting to the people of new things … uncanonical and according to their own taste rather than the Holy Scriptures.

Charles Sumner didn’t believe in the Bible because he didn’t write it.

When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

No one will ever convince me that the word of God is not true.

Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.