John Piper Quotes

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.

I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.

Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.

I just want to encourage every one of us to realize when we obey God, we’re not doing it for God—I mean, that’s one way to look at it—we’re doing it for ourselves, because God takes pleasure when we’re happy. That’s the thing that gives Him the greatest joy. So, I want you to know this morning: Just do good for your own self. Do good because God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you’re not doing it for God really. You’re doing it for yourself, because that’s what makes God happy. Amen?

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

Sunday morning in America is the greatest hour of idolatry in the whole week. Why? Because most people who are even worshiping God, are worshiping a God they don't know. They're worshiping a god that looks more like Santa Claus than the God of Scripture. They're worshiping a god that is a figment of their own imagination. They created a god in their own likeness and they worship the god they've made.

God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence.

It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.

Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.