
We ascribe to God. We don’t add to Him.
– John Piper
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- Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we’ve got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever. – Rick Riordan
- The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God. – John Piper
- people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist – Dean Koontz
- There we go, I see a human and immediately ascribe to them a pronoun and a sexuality. Be the change. – Mark William Lindberg
- Don’t ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity. – James A Owen
- Life is a chaotic gives who will not add nothing to it and deprives who want to add to it – Ramy Mohamed Sabry
- You don’t need a reason to add value to somebody’s life. Nor do you need to get anything back from them. You add value because it’s who you are. – Renee Wade
- Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly. – Kia CarringtonRussell
- God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him – John Piper
- Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him? – John Piper
- She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
- God without Christ is no God. – John Piper
- If you can learn something from that person add him in your list if you can’t ignore him. – Deyth Banger
- Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others – John Piper
- Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful. – John Piper
- DOING is often God’s remedy for despair. – John Piper
- By nature, we get more pleasure from God’s gifts then from Himself. – John Piper
- The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for. – John Piper
- Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy. – John Piper
- Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon. – John Piper
- God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn’t. Copper will do. – John Piper
- I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God. – John Piper
- The horror of Hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God’s glory. – John Piper
- Desire for and delight in God’s Word are inseparable. – John Piper
- If we are cut loose from the anchor of God’s Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends. – John Piper
- I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it! – William Faulkner
- God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it! – Israelmore Ayivor
- You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. – Michael Cunningham
- She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all – Rick Yancey
- It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm’s way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things? – Thomas Lynch
- Maybe that’s why I was so afraid of Sasha’s love. With him comes the remembering part that I was so good at forgetting.~Piper – ‘Breathe Me – Alexia Purdy
- The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil. – John Piper
- When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains. – John Piper
- I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person’s theology was the effect it has on one’s prayers. – John Piper
- I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn. – John Piper
- Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant. – John Piper
- Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight. – John Piper
- He came to destroy sin because it is fatal. – John Piper
- It is better to lose your life than to waste it. – John Piper
- Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies. – John Piper
