John Piper Quotes

One of the things that I just kind of became very enthusiastic about, and wanted to learn more about it, is how God saves.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

Getting into Heaven is not something you can earn or deserve. God makes that really clear in the scriptures.

When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.

What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

Your identity is not wrapped up in how right you get it or how perfect you can posture yourself. But, your identity is wrapped up in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It was always very clear to me that God was sovereign in salvation.

If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.

It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

Jesus is coming back for a church without a spot or a wrinkle. His righteous blood covers the spots and the wrinkles of those who believe unto righteousness, allowing once sinful men to be holy.

It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.

This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.