Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.
John PiperWe belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
John PiperWe embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.
John PiperOur main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything.
John PiperThe evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.
John Piper