If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
John PiperWe do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
John PiperThe purpose of the Lord's Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.
John PiperLove is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one.
John Piper