Inspirational Quotes by John Piper
“Christmas means: the infinitely self-sufficient God has come not to be assisted but to be enjoyed.”
“the world we live in is a world where only the gospel of Jesus Christ can bring the kind of racial and ethnic harmony that we were made to enjoy.”
“In obedience to God’s Word we should fight to walk in the paths where he has promised his blessings. But when and how they come is God’s to decide, not ours. If they delay, we trust the wisdom of our Father’s timing, and we wait. In this way joy remains a gift, while we work patiently in the field of obedience and fight against the weeds and the crows and the rodents. Here is where joy will come. Here is where Christ will reveal himself (John 14:21). But that revelation and that joy will come when and how Christ chooses. It will be a gift.”
“He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That’s the meaning of Advent.”
“The gospel is: a Christ-centered story to be told a hope-filled message to be proclaimed a revealed truth to be defended a new status to be received a transformed life to be lived a divine power to be celebrated.12”
“In his work on the sinner’s soul, Christ remakes the heart of stone into a heart of flesh, and he opens the sinner’s eyes to the incredible riches of God’s Word. This divine illumination comes from Christ alone as the Logos, or Word. Christ is our all-sufficient Prophet, our teacher, and the self-disclosure of the invisible God (John 8:26; 14:9; 17:8). Christ is the telescope by which we see God in creation, and the clue that leads us through the history of divine providence. Through Christ the Bible is applied to the hearts and lives of Christians.”
“what makes the prosperity gospel so attractive is that it caters to the desires of the fallen human heart. It promises much while requiring little. It panders to the flesh.”
“If there is any one “secret” of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time. — Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive”
“The activities of our everyday lives are not separate from the good works that God has called us to. They are themselves part of the good works that God created us for in Christ. And, therefore, they have great meaning.”
“One of the effects of the gospel going deeper into our souls is that it frees our fingers to loosen their grasp on our goods.”
“In our sin, we’d rather trust in ourselves than another, amass our own righteousness than receive another’s, speak our own mind rather than listen to someone else.”
“…Prayer to God is not only the place for divulging our heart, but also developing our desires.”
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“Nothing shows our hearts like sacrifice. When we are willing not only to give from our excess, but to embrace some personal loss or disadvantage for the sake of showing generosity toward others, we say loudly and clearly…that we have a greater love than ourselves and our comforts.”
“When we reach the final judgment, we are not to give back to the Lord simply what we were originally given. We are to get a return on our lives and return to Jesus more than he gave us.”
“En otras palabras, cuando el escritor de la carta a los Hebreos dice que el acercarnos a Dios es lo que nos califica para la obra salvífica y eterna de nuestro Sumo Sacerdote, no quiere decir que Él nos deja solos en nuestros propios esfuerzos pecaminosos como si pudiéramos acercarnos a Dios por nuestra cuenta. Al contrario, nuestro Sumo Sacerdote intercede por nosotros y le pide al Padre que haga lo que Hebreos 13:21 dice que hará —obrar en nosotros aquello que le place— “por medio de Jesucristo”.”
“Machen alerts us to the doctrinal "indifferentism" of our day and to the fact that we almost take it for granted that utilitarian thinking is the only hope for success and that preaching or teaching doctrine is a prescription for failure. This skepticism about the value of doctrine is owing to bad preaching that is not passionate and clear and interesting and suspenseful and authentic about the glories of God and his way of salvation, and how it all connects with real life. "The dogma is the drama,"48 as Dorothy Sayers said, and the reason we don't show this to people in our preaching and teaching and writing is that we have not seen and felt the greatness of the glory of God and all his teachings. Preaching doctrine should not be confusing or boring.”
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“Los ricos no son los únicos que están bajo el dominio de las cosas materiales; también son esclavos los que, sin tener dinero, son infelices por la falta del mismo.”
“¡Qué gran regalo sería! Deja que todas tus frustraciones en este mundo te empujen hacia la Palabra de Dios. Será algo dulce —como entrar al paraíso.”
“Señor Jesús, Tú eres el Mesías, el Rey de Israel. Las naciones se postran ante Ti. Dios lleva al mundo a reconocer que eres digno de adoración. Por tanto, ante cualquier oposición que encuentre, con gozo te atribuyo autoridad y dignidad, y traigo estos regalos para decirte que solo Tú puedes satisfacer mi corazón.”
“Como dice Juan 4:16-17: “Porque tanto amó Dios al mundo, que dio a Su Hijo unigénito [esto es la Navidad y el Viernes Santo en conjunto], para que todo el que cree en Él no se pierda, sino que tenga vida eterna. Dios no envió a Su Hijo al mundo para condenar al mundo [la Navidad no es para condenación], sino para salvarlo por medio de Él [la Navidad es para salvación]”.”
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John Piper (1946 - Present)
is a Calvinistic Baptist Christian preacher and author currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His books include ECPA Christian Book Award winners Spectacular Sins, What Jesus Demands from the World, Pierced by the Word, and God's Passion for His Glory, and bestsellers Don't Waste Your Life and The Passion of Jesus Christ. The evangelical organization Desiring God is named for his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986).In 1980, after what he described as an "irresistible call of the Lord to preach", Piper became Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he has been ministering ever since. Piper hit the evangelical scene after the publication of his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986) and has continued to publish dozens of other books further articulating this theological perspective. In 1994, he founded Desiring God Ministries, which provides all of Piper's sermons and articles from the past three decades, and most of his books online free of charge, as well as offering for sale books, CDs, and DVDs and regularly hosting conferences.
John Stephen Piper is a Reformed and Baptist theologian, preacher, and author, currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books.
Piper's motto in ministry, preaching, and teaching is: "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." He calls those who live out this motto Christian Hedonists. Piper places a heavy emphasis on the objective and absolute nature of truth and is confident in the Christian's ability to grasp that truth through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.