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121 " Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. "
― John Piper
122 " I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry. "
― John Piper , Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton (The Swans Are Not Silent #5)
123 " We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said. "
― John Piper , John Calvin: And His Passion for the Majesty of God
124 " The horror of Hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory. "
125 " God is willing and able to turn his judgements into joys . . . Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future. "
― John Piper , A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God
126 " Don't make peace with the sin in your life. "
― John Piper , When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
127 " Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable. "
128 " Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies. "
129 " Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These tasks can be transposed into worship. "
130 " If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends. "
― John Piper , Jesus: The Only Way to God: Must You Hear the Gospel to Be Saved?
131 " All heroes are shadows of Christ "
― John Piper , Don't Waste Your Life
132 " God without Christ is no God. "
133 " Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. "
134 " If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails. "
135 " An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load. "
― John Piper , David Brainerd: May I Never Loiter On My Heavenly Journey (Missions Biography #1)
136 " Here’s an Advent illustration for kids — and those of us who used to be kids and remember what it was like. Suppose you and your mom get separated in the grocery store, and you start to get scared and panic and don’t know which way to go, and you run to the end of an aisle, and just before you start to cry, you see a shadow on the floor at the end of the aisle that looks just like your mom. It makes you really happy and you feel hope. But which is better? The happiness of seeing the shadow, or having your mom step around the corner and it’s really her?That’s the way it is when Jesus comes to be our High Priest. That’s what Christmas is. Christmas is the replacement of shadows with the real thing. "
137 " Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior. "
138 " Brand-new truths are probably not Truths. "
139 " Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have a love for the lost? This is a term we use as part of our Christian jargon. Many believers search their hearts in condemnation, looking for the arrival of some feeling of benevolence that will propel them into bold evangelism. It will never happen. It is impossible to love “the lost”. You can’t feel deeply for an abstraction or a concept. You would find it impossible to love deeply an unfamiliar individual portrayed in a photograph, let alone a nation or a race or something as vague as “all lost people”.Don’t wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him, so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God. "
140 " God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn’t just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now He calls us to choose suffering. That is, He calls us to take up our cross and follow Him on the Calvary road and deny ourselves and make sacrifices for the sake of ministering to the church and presenting His sufferings to the world. "
― John Piper , Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist