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
Related Quotes:
- The avoidance of pain is the avoidance of life. – Stefan Molyneux
- 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
- Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel. – Dave Harvey
- Best to live and love by the maxim that ‘silence in the face of evil is evil itself’, but when it’s evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself. – Criss Jami
- Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that. – Lakshya Bharadwaj
- Doing better is creativity,doing faster is creativity,doing smarter is creativity,doing right is creativity.doing Exclusive is creating identity. – Mohit Manke
- …the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt. – John Piper
- Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires. – John Owen
- Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work – Sunday Adelaja
- Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil. – Amit Abraham
- The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins. – Thomas Jefferson
- She’s had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil. – Agatha Christie
- When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil? – Nick Joaqun
- Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves. – Shannon L Alder
- Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies. – John Piper
- Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job -“ show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me. – Chris Murray
- It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing. – Terry Pratchett
- Doing better is creativity, doing faster is creativity, doing smarter is creativity, doing right is creativity. – Amit Kalantri
- Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot. – Fennel Hudson
- We share the gospel with others because we believe the gospel is not just about heaven, but about having life even here on earth. – Adam Hamilton
- The gospel is the gospel of the cross. This means that God loves the objects of his wrath and that he, in his love, embraces men alienated from him. – Kazoh Kitamori
- Leaders are passionate about the Purpose, while Managers need to be passionate about the Results! – Amit Chatterjee
- I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate. – Nicola Yoon
- Sachin is passionate for cricket and fame is passionate for Sachin. – Amit Kalantri
- To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies. – Val Edward Simone
- The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. – Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Aim for truth, and beauty will follow. Aim for beauty, and truth will not necessarily follow. – Chuck Wachtel
- Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim-”arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object. – Jack Kornfield
- If you aim upward, you will at shoot higher things (future prospects). If you aim downwards, you may shoot your feet (foundation). – Israelmore Ayivor
- Think outside the box; if possible, think as if there is no box. Aim high, above the ceilings; aim as if no ceiling can limit you. Dream big! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. – Mahatma Gandhi
- DOING is often God’s remedy for despair. – John Piper
- There’s no such thing as an evil race, just evil circumstances that make people do evil things. – Stuart Hill
- If I think God’s aim is to produce rule-followers, spiritual growth will always be an obligation rather than a desire of my heart. – John Ortberg
- The aim of literature … is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart. – Donald Barthelme
- The miracle centered gospel breeds up a mentality of people that think they could go through life without doing their best. – Sunday Adelaja
- All work is the avoidance of harder work. – James Richardson
- Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve) – JD Robb
- The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement. – Mark Buchanan