Quotes about Power
When a sinful person meets the holy God in Christ, what he hears is Yes. God, do you love me? Yes. Will you forgive me? Yes. Will you accept me? Yes. Will you help me change? Yes. Will you give me power to serve you? Yes. Will you keep me? Yes. Will you show me your glory? Yes.
— John Piper
But not only does the pursuit of joy in God give strength to endure; it is the key to breaking the power of sin on our way to heaven.
— John Piper
The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for his ends
— John Piper
The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.
— John Piper
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 1 JOHN 3:8
— John Piper
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is. C. S. LEWIS Surprised by Joy1
— John Piper
We live under the new covenant. But the mark of that new covenant is not the absence of commands, but the blood-bought power to obey them.
— John Piper
When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.1
— John Piper
No man can give the impression that he himself is clever and that Christ is mighty to save." Self-exaltation and Christ-exaltation can't go together.
— John Piper
In the first case, we use our own power to make ourselves moral. In the second case, we use our own power to make the church moral. In the first case, we fail to rely on the power of God for our own sanctification. In the second case, we fail to rely on the power of God for the sanctification of others.
— John Piper
In other words, the path to glory for God's incarnate representative on earth was the path through suffering. The path to majesty was through meekness. The path to exaltation was through humility. The path to power was through weakness.
— John Piper
In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims of life if God withholds his saving power.
— John Piper