The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
– John Piper
Related Quotes:
- 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
- Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. – George Orwell
- Tis Fate that flings the dice,And as she flingsOf kings makes peasants,And of peasants kings. – John Dryden
- 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
- One who has a deaden conscience can never live within the confinements of the law. – Drexel Deal
- Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness. – John Updike
- Fill my mouth with the accuracy and potency of Your word and Spirit that I may make war through prayer with swift precision (Psalm 144:1). – Shawntel Jefferson
- I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure! [Psalm 119:162] – Anonymous
- A wise man nourishes his soul each morning with the word of God and enriches his day with God’s wisdom. Psalm 19:7. – Felix Wantang
- Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all with accepting the reality. – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm! – John Muir
- O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Time’ is the most threatening four letter word. – Jennifer Elisabeth
- Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy. – 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
- In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us. – John Kuypers
- When love invades your life, it captures your heart, imprisons your mind, and frees your soul. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Gods tender mercies are over all His creatures. – Psalm
- You cannot love God and tolerate evil. Psalm 97:10. – Felix Wantang
- All my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began.Psalm 139:16 – SL Rubart
- The words of the twenty-third Psalm had come back to her, verses Mutti had helped her memorize as a young girl–Elise Neumann – Jody Hedlund
- Those who live by God’s law will walk through the rough roads of life shielded by God’s love and faithfulness. Psalm 25:10. – Felix Wantang
- When it comes to salvation, we are all fugitives. Psalm 119:176 – Felix Wantang
- Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful. – John Piper
- To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine! – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create. – Meia Geddes
- God’s word is the way to God himself. If you miss the word of God, you will miss God. Jesus is the word! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Noah got a word from God then built upon that word. Then when the storm came he stood on what he built according to the word of God! – Joe Joe Dawson
- They were like animals, men. They found too much eye contact threatening. – Jojo Moyes
- Like the shadow of deathThe residue of heartbreakAlways lingers in the backgroundWith its darkness threatening to consume you – Nomzamo Nhlumayo
- We momentarily discover our wings under life-threatening circumstances – Asoka Nimal Jinadasa
- Threatening a current or former partner isn’t passion, or love, or heartache. It’s violence, it’s abuse and it’s a crime. – Miya Yamanouchi
- Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud. – DaShanne Stokes
- When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us. – Barack Obama
- Technology – with all its promise and potential – has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind. – Kim J Vicente
- Don’t ignore or drive away your God sent Davids for you will need them when the life threatening giant Goliaths go on rampage in your life – Ikechukwu Joseph
- For the purpose of pursuit not to be stated is to invite threatening danger – Sunday Adelaja