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141 " If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love. "
― John Piper , Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
142 " We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God. "
― John Piper , A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God
143 " The gospel of the glory of Christ spreads better and flourishes more because of 6,500 languages, not in spite of them. "
― John Piper , Spectacular Sins: And Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ
144 " Go, send, or disobey. "
― John Piper
145 " So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be. "
146 " You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts. "
147 " R.C. Sproul has written that "we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization." As far as my fundamentalist upbringing goes, Noll says that for the kind of thinking that embraces society, the arts, the human person, and nature—"for that kind of thinking the habits of mind fundamentalism encouraged can only be called disaster. "
― John Piper , Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
148 " And now let us listen to the groans of Frederick Douglass, feel the lash with Amy, endure the satire of Du Bois, and measure the wrath of Malcolm X; let us contemplate the pathos of black childhood and the tragedy of black womanhood. And let us not forget that [as Martin Luther King Jr. said] “he who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” And let us also remember that if God has given us a revelation of the true nature of man, surely we will render account if we do not live in the light of that revelation, and especially so if we are called to the holy office of the Christian ministry. "
― John Piper , Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian
149 " The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours. "
― John Piper , Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure
150 " It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself. "
― John Piper , Don't Waste Your Life
151 " Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences. "
― John Piper , A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life
152 " I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Before you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks first to what man can do, not what God can do. It is a terrible sickness. And I thank God for those who have forced me again and again toward a wartime mind-set. "
153 " The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves. "
154 " He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. "
155 " Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good. "
― John Piper , The Passion of Jesus Christ
156 " I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul "
157 " He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis) "
158 " You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ. "
159 " You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing. "
160 " The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it. "