Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.
John PiperThe importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
John PiperGod will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him.
John PiperGod is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.
John Piper