John Piper is a wonderful, reformed theologian, New Testament scholar, a prolific author, and pastor. I have used many of his quotes throughout my six years of blogging on my website. Piper is the founder and senior teacher of a great Christian website called desiringGod.org. I hope you will check it out. Below are just a few of his many inspiring quotes on the majesty, wonder and awe of God. I pray they inspire you on your walk with the Lord.
“What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin.”1
“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.”
“Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.”
“If you can’t see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you’ve never felt thunder and lightning you’ll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you’ll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.”
“If God’s love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.”
“Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, ‘Heart, who do you think you are to be afraid of the future and nullify the promise of God? No, heart, I will not exalt myself with anxiety. I will humble myself in peace and joy as I trust this precious and great promise of God – He cares for me.’”
“The more of God’s Word you know and love, the more of God’s Spirit you will experience.”
“I’ve never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I’ve ever made in grasping in the depth of God’s love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.”
“Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.”
“We embrace the hand we’ve been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.”
“Prayer is not for the enhancement of our comforts but for the advancement of Christ’s kingdom.”
“The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God’s peace is faith in the promises of God.”
“Not to enjoy God is to dishonor Him.”
“You should never count God out. What He has planned and dreamed for your life far exceeds the circumstances of your day. He is always at work, painting on a canvas bigger than we can see or imagine. Not only is this true today; it’s been true of our entire story to this point.”
“The Calvary road with Jesus is not a joyless road. It is a painful one, but it is a profoundly happy one. When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy.”
“Keep Christ as the blazing center, and you will be satisfied; the world will be served; and God will be glorified.”
“God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.”
“The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.”
“Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.”
“The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.”
“People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and feel about the meaning of life. Human nature and American culture make it impossible to rejoice in suffering. This is a miracle in the human soul wrought by God through His Word.”
“Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.”
“The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.”
“In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.”
“One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God’s promises.”
“The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.”
“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.”
“I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.”
“The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.”
1 All of these quotes are from the websites below: