John Piper Quotes

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.

Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

If you will focus on meeting other people’s needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.

. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

The Savior taught His disciples, 'For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it' (Luke 9:24)."I believe the Savior is telling us that unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives. Those who live only for themselves eventually shrivel up and figuratively lose their lives, while those who lose themselves in service to others grow and flourish—and in effect save their lives.

Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

I have found that the more I get my ego out of a picture and the more I think about how can I serve other people instead of always thinking about me, the more miracles show up.

The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

My life nah important to me, but other people life important. My life is only important if me can help plenty people. If my life is just for me and my own security then me no want it. My life is for people. That's way me is.

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

The hope for an American is different from the hope of a Syrian. For me, I should be the hope of the Syrian, not any other one, not American, neither French, nor anyone in the world. I'm President to help the Syrian people.

The object of love is to serve, not to win

Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us. To lay down our desires and do what's in his or her best interest. To care for him or her even when there's nothing in it for us. To want that person's purity and holiness because it pleases God and protects him or her.

What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.