John Piper

“Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.”

“I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.”

“There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.”

“You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to cause it to become a conflagration in a community or in a nation.”

“The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so danger...”

“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 can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.”

“You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.”

“If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.”

“God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.”

“The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserv...”