Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had ...
JOHN PIPER The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of...
JOHN PIPER Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, an...
JOHN PIPER All heroes are shadows of Christ
JOHN PIPER The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has act...
JOHN PIPER When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'thr...
JOHN PIPER God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that...
JOHN PIPER Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
JOHN PIPER We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threa...
JOHN PIPER The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn&...
JOHN PIPER Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the Fi...
JOHN PIPER The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as...
JOHN PIPER I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I ...
JOHN PIPER The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
JOHN PIPER You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.
JOHN PIPER The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family...
JOHN PIPER The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of th...
JOHN PIPER God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
JOHN PIPER The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
JOHN PIPER Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in ...
JOHN PIPER God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your l...
JOHN PIPER It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into ...
JOHN PIPER My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, ...
JOHN PIPER God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of ...
JOHN PIPER We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Di...
JOHN PIPER God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obe...
JOHN PIPER Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook...
JOHN PIPER If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 mil...
JOHN PIPER God tests His people through hardship.
JOHN PIPER Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex ...
JOHN PIPER God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything.
JOHN PIPER Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don'...
JOHN PIPER My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish commun...
JOHN PIPER God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
JOHN PIPER God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that ...
JOHN PIPER As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost eve...
JOHN PIPER Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into...
JOHN PIPER God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poiso...
JOHN PIPER My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My...
JOHN PIPER humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of r...
JOHN PIPER We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
JOHN PIPER Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life i...
JOHN PIPER Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue...
JOHN PIPER Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you ...
JOHN PIPER The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.
It is not the banquet of the ...
JOHN PIPER Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees y...
JOHN PIPER The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while n...
JOHN PIPER Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't...
JOHN PIPER It is better to lose your life than to waste it.
JOHN PIPER Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to de...
JOHN PIPER There is hope in forgiveness
JOHN PIPER Your daddy is standing in a swimming pool out a little bit from the edge. You are, let’s say, thre...
JOHN PIPER Reading is more important to me than eating.
JOHN PIPER God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about hi...
JOHN PIPER Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought.
JOHN PIPER What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
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JOHN PIPER My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you ...
JOHN PIPER The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...
JOHN PIPER Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. L...
JOHN PIPER Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. A...
JOHN PIPER It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5...
JOHN PIPER A mind fed daily on TV diminishes. Your mind was made to know and love God.
JOHN PIPER The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by t...
JOHN PIPER The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being ...
JOHN PIPER All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. ...
JOHN PIPER Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the sam...
JOHN PIPER It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I...
JOHN PIPER God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deepl...
JOHN PIPER America today is a "save yourself" society if there ever was one. But does it really work? The under...
JOHN PIPER Your mind was made to know and love God.
JOHN PIPER God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His ch...
JOHN PIPER He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and o...
JOHN PIPER Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings
JOHN PIPER The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It ...
JOHN PIPER You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Chri...
JOHN PIPER He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and hea...
JOHN PIPER God without Christ is no God.
JOHN PIPER I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of t...
JOHN PIPER God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, ...
JOHN PIPER He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
JOHN PIPER The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self...
JOHN PIPER Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Wa...
JOHN PIPER Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...
JOHN PIPER We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to fai...
JOHN PIPER ... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...
JOHN PIPER You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. Bu...
JOHN PIPER But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...
JOHN PIPER God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himse...
JOHN PIPER I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love ...
JOHN PIPER We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody
JOHN PIPER It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe b...
JOHN PIPER If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you ha...
JOHN PIPER Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
JOHN PIPER I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afra...
JOHN PIPER Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall t...
JOHN PIPER Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everyt...
JOHN PIPER America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
JOHN PIPER God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him
JOHN PIPER The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, ...
JOHN PIPER Being happy in God is the way we glorify Him. This is the reason we were created. Delighting in God ...
JOHN PIPER Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have a love for the lost? This is a term we use as part...
JOHN PIPER The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do no...
JOHN PIPER The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our consc...
JOHN PIPER We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the tru...
JOHN PIPER The horror of Hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.
JOHN PIPER The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—
is this: If you could ha...
JOHN PIPER God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
JOHN PIPER The training is more extensive, the training has been upgraded, the training is very successful, and...
JOHN PIPER We send out mass e-mails to the handlers we have signed up, and we include in our mailings to them t...
JOHN PIPER The astonishing thing is that people can become religious without being converted. That is, they joi...
JOHN PIPER God has the capacity to look at the world through two lenses. When God looks at a painful or wicked ...
JOHN PIPER What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took ...
JOHN PIPER The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.
JOHN PIPER The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifes...
JOHN PIPER God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ...
JOHN PIPER The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.
JOHN PIPER Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.
JOHN PIPER One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me wh...
JOHN PIPER The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus
JOHN PIPER Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex ...
JOHN PIPER The training is more extensive, the training has been upgraded, the training is very successful, and...
JOHN PIPER Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients...
JOHN PIPER Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if t...
JOHN PIPER I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I l...
JOHN PIPER The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice...
JOHN PIPER ...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have d...
JOHN PIPER A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doe...
JOHN PIPER Do not say, 'But it is hypocritical to thank God with my tongue when I don't feel thankful in my hea...
JOHN PIPER The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the lea...
JOHN PIPER Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
JOHN PIPER Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of ...
JOHN PIPER A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.
JOHN PIPER God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...
JOHN PIPER This point is often missed by evangelical feminists. They conclude that a difference in function nec...
JOHN PIPER Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look ...
JOHN PIPER Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day a...
JOHN PIPER Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you t...
JOHN PIPER I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
DON PIPER In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I woul...
BILLIE PIPER I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.
PIPER PERABO There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simpl...
PIPER PAYNE Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had ...
PIPER LAURIE I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.
PIPER PERABO There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about bein...
PIPER PERABO Rose has had adventures and she's a lot more confident as a companion. She's on a par with the Docto...
BILLIE PIPER You want it to happen, but at the same time you don't want it to happen. It's one of those weird thi...
BILLIE PIPER There are lots of places for Rose to go. I have had a ball. I might still be here in 40 years.
BILLIE PIPER Everyone had an amazing night. Thank you so much to all the generous people who were there raising s...
BILLIE PIPER the worst thing I have ever listened to.
BILLIE PIPER It may sound ridiculous being just 23 but I've a few good stories I'd like to share. I'm hoping the ...
BILLIE PIPER There's some great stuff on telly at the moment.
BILLIE PIPER I think I just had a message from my mum,
BILLIE PIPER At first, Rose isn't that keen on the idea - she wants the Doctor all to herself. But Mickey, this y...
BILLIE PIPER I'll do what I always do on transmission dates, which is go to the pub and get lashed.
BILLIE PIPER I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the othe...
PIPER PERABO I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'...
PIPER LAURIE To me that was interesting. A lot of romantic comedies, it's so obvious she shouldn't be with X and ...
PIPER PERABO What is wrong? This train is supposed to stop here!
PIPER PERABO You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep somethin...
PIPER PERABO And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart.
PIPER LAURIE One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.
PIPER LAURIE Instead of changing my name, I would change Piper Laurie. That was the beginning.
PIPER LAURIE But then I became so disillusioned.... I had very little life experience and certainly no technique ...
PIPER LAURIE There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever reall...
BILLIE PIPER It?s really important the way we play that we rotate on defense. If you leave on a double, the other...
BERYL PIPER I told them we really needed to control the tempo of the game because they would probably try to slo...
BERYL PIPER She's been phenomenal night after night. I'm really pleased with the progress she's made.
BERYL PIPER They were playing a zone and in the second half we did a better job attacking it, getting them on th...
BERYL PIPER Their guards are really, really fast. Because they?re in your face on defense and they?re so fast th...
BERYL PIPER We only missed two free throws all night. That?s a difference in the game. ..And just the hustle pla...
BERYL PIPER We have so many kids who can score and so many kids that can defend. We just did a nice job ..It?s a...
BERYL PIPER Beating Manchester and (Thursday) the (local rankings had) us second, now you gotta prove to people ...
BERYL PIPER It's a little scary. As quick as you get a lead, you can give it away but it's a chance you have to ...
BERYL PIPER We're small and quick and don't have a lot of size. Because of that, we changed the philosophy to pr...
BERYL PIPER I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm n...
PIPER LAURIE Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids...
PIPER PERABO I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it...
PIPER PERABO I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
PIPER LAURIE Violet: You always said I could grow up to be anything.
Mr. Sanford: I never said "songwriter i...
PIPER PERABO The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours.
PIPER PAYNE Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself.
BILLIE PIPER Their faces radiated a serenity I had never seen on Earth. All were full of life and expressed radia...
DON PIPER I'm NOT lost, they just moved my street.
PIPER PERABO The Complete Idiot's Guide To Your-Movie's-Coming-Out.
PIPER PERABO Sometimes I can feel my darkness, like a fragment of nerves inside of me somewhere, sparking my hate...
PIPER PAYNE There's no formula. It just happens or it doesn't. And, fortunately enough for us, it happened.
BILLIE PIPER As far back as I can remember, I've had only one real ambition: to be an actress.
PIPER LAURIE It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.
PIPER PERABO The choreography was specific to be moves any girl could pull off just jumping up on the bar.
PIPER PERABO Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.
PIPER PAYNE Her silence should be feared more than her words.
PIPER PAYNE She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she fi...
PIPER PERABO I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.
PIPER PERABO Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.
PIPER LAURIE This building is a non-smoking facility. I think that has made a difference.
DON PIPER I came in one morning and it was here. We sure would like to thank the donor, if we can find out who...
DON PIPER There were eight offices in here and we had to remove all of them. A kitchen was also installed in t...
DON PIPER I am very honored and humbled to be doing a book signing right here in my own hometown, ... Out of a...
DON PIPER It really is incredible; it seems to really be catching on,
DON PIPER We are going to start fining people for some of these things.
DICK PIPER