John Piper Quotes

If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.

That is the voice of God because its the voice of truth and experience.

One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

When God talks to humans he doesn't want humans to hear his voice.

The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.

Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.

I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice.

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention.

God speaks through me.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only in moments of silence, which are rare and brief, that their beat can be faintly discerned. There are other times. These are the times when God is heard in rolling thunder, when the earth trembles and the treetops bend under the force of [God’s] voice. It is not given to men [and women] to make God speak. It is only given to them to live and to think in such a way that, if God’s thunder should come, they will not have stopped their ears.

God is speaking to all of us, all the time. The question is not, to whom does God talk? The question is, who listens?

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

Silence is the only Voice of our God.

If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.