The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse.

— John Piper

John Piper Quotes

The call of God creates sight in us. It’s the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

— John Piper

The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.

— John Piper

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

— John Piper

God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

— John Piper
Joy

Out of the freedom from worry that God’s generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

— John Piper

Don’t ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

— John Piper
Christian Motivational Morality Grace Forgiveness Past

Our obedience is God’s pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

— John Piper

Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

— John Piper

We are far too easily pleased.

— John Piper

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

— John Piper

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

— John Piper
Scripture Sunday Morning

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

— 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 in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

— John Piper

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

— John Piper

My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all. You were made for God. Don’t waste it.

— John Piper

We are more than a collection of appetites – we are of God.

— John Piper

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

— John Piper

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, ‘Shut up!’ to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn’t around.

— John Piper
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