John Piper Quotes

It is always helpful to us to fix our attention on the God-ward aspect of Christian work; to realise that the work of God does not mean so much man's work for God, as God's own work through man.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.

Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He’d have no one to use

God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him... people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God's activities and programs in this world. These are the people God will tap on the shoulder and say, “Come with me and we're going to do something great in your lifetime. Come, we're going to do this together.

Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.

We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.

We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.

Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that every event, great and small, prosperous and adverse, is under the absolute disposal of Him who doth all things well, and who regulates all things for the good of his people.

Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the canvas of our lives by the Master Artist who certified his skill, his power, and his love in the Masterpiece of Calvary. If you doubt His skill in painting your life - look at the Calvary

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilitie s on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.

God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.

Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.

There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!

The point of your life is to point to Him...it is His movie, His world, His gift.

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

If God is the author of life, there must be a script.

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.