Monday, June 11, 2007

Great quotations from Piper

• "We know that we have tasted pleasures at his right hand, and that our desires for them are pitifully small compared to their true worth."
• I have found for thirty years that preaching and teaching about God's demand that we delight in him more than in anything else breaks and humbles people, and makes them desperate for true conversion and true Christianity.
• Esteeming God less than anything is the essence of evil.
• A person who has no taste for the enjoyment of Christ will not go to heaven. "If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed" (1 Cor. 16:22).
• Believing means trusting Jesus not only as our all-sovereign Lord and all-sufficient Savior, but also as our all-surpassing Treasure.
• But today, by and large, there is a devil-may-care, cavalier, superficial attitude toward the ongoing, daily intensity of personal joy in Christ, because people do not believe that their eternal life depends on it.

2 comments:

Samantha said...

Amen! Amen! Amen! :)

ann said...

He is the best :)