John Piper Quotes

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church

No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union.

I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian - for me - for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix.

Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly... Many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person; but it cannot be; if we will have one, we must take the other too: Yea, we must accept his person first, and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage covenant, so it is here.

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

There is no substitute for marrying in the temple.

The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human relationships, whether those within the covenanted community itself or those between the covenanted community and the outside world.

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage?

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.

The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.

The temple is the house of the Lord. The basis for every temple ordinance and covenant…is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Every activity, every lesson, all we do in the Church, point to the Lord and His holy house.

But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does it as well as marriage, and that is marriage between a man and a woman.

I do believe that the Church is God's primary instrument for ushering in the Kingdom (God's dream) on earth as it is in heaven, but God is not limited to use only the Church, or only Christians for that matter.

There is a spiritual Israel and a natural Israel. God is committed to both. Neither replaces the other.

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.

The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.

But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married?

Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.

Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the gift of their lives to the inexpressible gift of the love of Christ, who alone, as the Redeemer of the world, is the Church's Bridegroom.