Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
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 PiperDoing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
John PiperThe most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
John PiperLove is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is not a resolute abandoning of one's own good with a view solely to the good of the other person. It is first a deeply satisfying experience of the fullness of God's grace, and then a doubly satisfying experience of sharing that grace with another person.
John PiperWhen you are deeply peaceful and confident that, because of Christ, God will bring you safely to his eternal kingdom and be the all-satisfying Treasure of your life forever, then you are free to see the truth, and love the truth, and speak the truth no matter what, and joyfully spread a passion for the truth whose name is Jesus.
John Piper