Inspirational Quotes by John Piper
“...for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help us see or feel. If it were merely expressible - if there were nothing ineffable about it - there would be no need for a poem. But everywhere in the Bible we meet reality that exceeds our expectations.”
― John Piper ,
from Esther
“النمو الهائل في القدرة التكنولوجية جعل الحياة عملية أعقد بكثير جدا مما أعتدنا أن نراها عليه من قبل”
“يعد علم الاجتماع من الوجهة المنطقية آخر العلوم وأعقدها في السلسلة، وإن كنا نحن واقعيا، نحس بالألفة تجاه الأوضاع الاجتماعية التي نحيا فيها أكثر مما نحس بها تجاه بديهيات الرياضة البحتة، وهذا يكشف عن مظهر آخر لأولوية العامل التاريخي، على نحو ماصادفنا من قبل عند فيكو، ذلك لأن الحياة الاجتماعية للإنسان هي مسار التاريخ.”
“لعل من المفيد أن نشير إلى أن اختراع الطباعة لن يكون نعمة مؤكدة مالم تصحبه ضمانات لحرية المناقشة. ذلك لأن الزيف يمكن طبعه بنفس السهولة التي تطبع بها الحقيقة، و يمكن ان ينتشر بنفس القدر من اليسر. و لن يفيد الإنسان كثيراً من القدرة على القراءة لو كان من المحتم عليه أن يقبل المادة المطروحة أمامه بلا مناقشة. فالتداول الواسع للكلمة المطبوعة لا يساعد على تقدم البحث العلمي إلا حيث تتوافر حرية الكلام والنقد. و بغير هذه الحرية يكون الأفضل لنا أن نظل أميين. ولقد أصبحت هذه المشكلة أشد حدة في أيامنا هذه لأن الطباعة لم تعد هي الوسيط القوي الوحيد للاتصال والاعلام الجماهيري. فمنذ اختراع اللاسلكي والتلفزيون ازدادت أهمية ممارسة هذه اليقظة الدائمة التي بدونها تبدأ الحرية بأعم معانيها في الاختفاء.”
“While efficiency is important, it is secondary. More important than efficiency is effectiveness — getting the right things done. Efficiency doesn’t matter if you are doing the wrong things in the first place.”
“We are never more vulnerable to sin than when we are successful, admired by others, and prosperous, as King David tragically discovered.”
“Assuming a driver never looks up in the average time it takes to send a text (4.6 seconds), at fifty-five miles per hour, he drives blindly the length of a football field. Texting”
“True freedom from the bondage of technology comes not mainly from throwing away the smartphone, but from filling the void with the glories of Jesus that you are trying to fill with the pleasures of the device.”
“The myth of procrastination is that it will somehow be easier later. The truth is, it’s never easy, and putting it off only makes it harder.”
“The Christian life is Christ—a truth that deeply reassures our souls, focuses our hearts, and simplifies our spiritual lives. But it’s a calling that we perpetually fumble. The veil removed from our eyes in conversion gives way to clouds over our eyes in trials and sleepiness in our steps with the spiritual disciplines. The greatest challenges we face are Christ-clouding distractions.”
“Legalism is a wicked lie that puts a mirror in front of our faces and makes us think we are looking at Christ when we are actually adoring the ghost of our own self-righteousness.”
“In the mature Christian more aware of his sin (in private) there will be found an authenticity to his humility (in public) that cannot be faked by those who are less aware of indwelling evil. A deep sense of indwelling sin is essential to humble living.”
“My heart is like a country but half subdued, where all things are in an unsettled state, and mutinies and insurrections are daily happening. I hope I hate the rebels that disturb the King’s peace. I am glad when I can point them out, lay hold of them, and bring them to him for justice. But they have many lurking-holes, and sometimes they come disguised like friends, so that I do not know them, till their works discover them.10”
“Keeping Christ in view at all times is, by far, the hardest—and the most essential—part of our calling as Christians.”
“Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.”
“There will be no danger of idolatry. The earth and the heavens and all things will declare the glory of God, and the essence of our joy in them will be joy in him. What makes our reward truly great is the greater fullness of our fellowship with God.”
“Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God’s delight in being God.”
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“Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the road of objective truth - there is objective being and objective value. Stay on the road. There is Truth. There is a Point and Purpose and Essence to it all. Keep searching. You will find it.”
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“Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.”
“God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.”
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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.