John Piper Quotes

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results? but: Are you in love with Jesus?

Love not Pleasure; love God.

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act of truly loving God. Believe in this brilliant Being, this magnificent "higher power," who not only created us but nurtures us with care and intelligence beyond our imagination, and obviously we are called to worship Him.

Love God, Love people, and thoroughly hate sin. ☼ ♡ ✞

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

Those of you who love the Lord should hate evil

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

I have been able to be just a good light to people and just share His love. I wake up every day and [try to] honor God in everything that I do and I may fall short sometimes, but all I want to do is love Him.

Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.

He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a spouse, friend, or child, we open our hearts to loving God. He says when we let someone love us, we're opening our hearts to god's love. he says the acts are the same. p 19 I decide loving isn't for the fain. Its for the courageous. p 19

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

For me to love you, Jesus, as you love me, I would have to borrow your own love and then only would I be at rest.

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.

Jesus spoke in such a way that the people loved the things of God. That’s why they followed him.

‎"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?

People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people (Mt 13:44)(Jn 15:8).

The reason for our loving God is God.

The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.