You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.
John PiperIt is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.
John PiperOnly the # gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.
John PiperNothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.
John PiperThe abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.
John PiperSo the main question is not, Which humans brought about the death of Jesus but, What did the death of Jesus bring about for humans - including Jews and Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus and nonreligious secularists - and all people everywhere?When it is all said and done, the most crucial question is: Why? Why did Christ suffer and die? Not why in the sense of cause, but why in the sense of purpose?
John Piper