What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.
John PiperMaintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.
John PiperFaith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
John PiperThe very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.
John Piper