Best quotes by John Piper on God

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• ‟ Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

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• ‟ We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.

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• ‟ God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine.

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• ‟ The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

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• ‟ You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

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• ‟ I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid?

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• ‟ God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

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• ‟ God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.

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• ‟ God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.

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• ‟ When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.'

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• ‟ The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous.

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• ‟ Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

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• ‟ God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.

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• ‟ Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.

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• ‟ Life is in God's hand.

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• ‟ I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.

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• ‟ God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover.

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• ‟ You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to cause it to become a conflagration in a community or in a nation.

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• ‟ God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.

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• ‟ God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

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• ‟ Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls.

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• ‟ God tests His people through hardship.

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• ‟ Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

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• ‟ God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

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• ‟ If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

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