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41 " Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion. "
― John Piper , Don't Waste Your Life
42 " But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life. "
43 " All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God. "
44 " But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice. "
― John Piper , Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
45 " When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains. "
― John Piper
46 " In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will be our delight, our joy. This experience is humanly impossible. No ordinary person can speak in truth like this. If God alone is enough to support joy when all else is lost, it is a miracle of grace. "
― John Piper , When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
47 " Indeed the devil thinks more true thoughts about God in one day than a saint does in a lifetime, and God is not honored by it. The problem with the devil is not his theology, but his desires. Our chief end is to glorify God, the great Object. We do so most fully when we treasure him, desire him, delight in him so supremely that we let goods and kindred go and display his love to the poor and the lost. "
48 " There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet. "
49 " If we were perfect—if there were no remaining corruption in our hearts—there would be no fight. There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet. "
50 " This point is often missed by evangelical feminists. They conclude that a difference in function necessarily involves a difference in essence; i.e., if men are in authority over women, then women must be inferior. The relationship between Christ and the Father shows us that this reasoning is flawed. One can possess a different function and still be equal in essence and worth. Women are equal to men in essence and in being; there is no ontological distinction, and yet they have a different function or role in church and home. Such differences do not logically imply inequality or inferiority, just as Christ’s subjection to the Father does not imply His inferiority. "
― John Piper , Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood
51 " The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19). "
52 " Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful. "
53 " In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims of life if God withholds his saving power. "
54 " ...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties. "
― John Piper , When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God—And Joy
55 " Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself. "
56 " DOING is often God's remedy for despair. "
57 " Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable. "
58 " When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not sin. The real danger is yielding to them. Giving in. Putting up no spiritual fight. And the root of that surrender is unbelief - a failure to fight for faith in future grace. A failure to cherish all that God promises to be for us in Jesus. "
― John Piper , Future Grace
59 " I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers. "
― John Piper , The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
60 " God aims to exalt himself by working for those who wait for him. Prayer is the essential activity of waiting for God: acknowledging our helplessness and his power, calling upon him for help, seeking his counsel. "