{"author":"John Piper","author_id":"John+Piper","total_quotes":167,"quotes":[{"text":"When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they form a powerful inducement toward the ultimate form of pride, namely, atheism. The safest way to stay supreme in our own estimation is to deny anything above us. This is why the proud preoccupy themselves with looking down on others. A proud man is always looking down on things and people and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. But to preserve pride it may be simpler to proclaim that there is nothing above to look at (Psalm 10:4). Ultimately, the proud must persuade themselves that there is no God.","author":"John Piper","tags":["pride","self-reliance"],"id":6980,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"God is not looking for people to work for him, so much as he is looking for people ho will let him work for them. The gospel is not a Help Wanted ad. Neither is the call to to Christian service. On the contrary, the gospel commands us to give up and hang out a Help Wanted sign (this is the basic meaning of prayer). Then the gospel promises that God will work for us if we do. He will not surrender the glory of being the Giver.","author":"John Piper","tags":["prayer"],"id":7550,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"There is hope in forgiveness.","author":"John Piper","tags":["forgiveness","hope"],"id":10354,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.","author":"John Piper","tags":["god","essence","being "],"id":18644,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Piper","tags":["christianity"],"id":18840,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.","author":"John Piper","tags":["missions","reformed","theology"],"id":22071,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.","author":"John Piper","tags":["christianity","hope","life","sacrifice","service"],"id":26847,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all thefriends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, andall the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beautiesyou ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and nohuman conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied withheaven, if Christ were not there? ","author":"John Piper","tags":["heaven"],"id":27536,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.","author":"John Piper","tags":["freedom","hope","sin"],"id":35327,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.","author":"John Piper","tags":["affection","desire","discipleship","intimacy-with-god"],"id":35986,"author_id":"John+Piper"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":167,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}