John Piper
John Stephen Piper is a Reformed Baptist minister and author, currently serving as senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Sourced
- If God should turn away from himself as the Source of infinite joy, he would cease to be God. He would deny the infinite worth of his own glory. He would imply that there is something more valuable outside himself. He would commit idolatry . . . Where will we find a Rock of integrity in the universe when the heart of God has ceased to value supremely the supremely valuable?
- Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (Multnomah, 1986) [ISBN 1590521196]]
Unsourced
- I never tire of saying and savoring the truth that God's passion to be glorified and our passion to be satisfied are one experience in the Christ-exalting act of worship.
- The wisdom of God has ordained a way for the love of God to deliver us from the wrath of God without compromising the justice of God.
- We will never fully appreciate what a deep and awesome thing conversion is until we own up to the fact that it is a miracle.
- Once we had no delight in God, and Christ was just a vague historical figure. What we enjoyed was food and friendships and productivity and investments and vacations and hobbies and games and reading and shopping and sex and sports and art and TV and travel... but not God. He was an idea—even a good one—and a topic for discussion; but he was not a treasure of delight.