John Piper Quotes

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life.

I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

I believe religion is important for every person.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

I love God, and I'm a follower.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

There's good things about going to church.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

Fear God and work hard.

Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.