Quotes about World
This is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
— John Piper
The Word brings joy directly and indirectly. Directly by simply showing us the beauty of Christ and his ways and all the good things he has promised to be for us forever. Indirectly by weaning us off the toxic pleasures of the world by means of the superior pleasures of Christ, so that, in purity of heart, we can see the beauty of Christ more clearly.
— John Piper
We know life is short and eternity is long. This eternal perspective does not take us out of the world. It gives us freedom from self-pity.
— John Piper
He may be frustrating you with life that is not centered on Christ and filling you with longings and desires that can't find their satisfaction in what this world offers, but only in the God-man.
— John Piper
Know the spirit of the age and consciously resist conformity to it (Romans 12:2). As D. L. Moody said, "The ship belongs in the water of the world, but if the water gets in the ship, it sinks.
— John Piper
Keep Christ as the blazing center, and you will be satisfied; the world will be served; and God will be glorified.
— John Piper
the world we live in is a world where only the gospel of Jesus Christ can bring the kind of racial and ethnic harmony that we were made to enjoy.
— John Piper
The further up you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory, and that this aim is no other than the endless, ever-increasing joy of his people in that glory.
— John Piper
in reference to God, the noun providence has come to mean "the act of purposefully providing for, or sustaining and governing, the world.
— John Piper
May our light shine in this world so that people see you in our sacrificial deeds of love and our compromising words of truth and give glory to your hallowed name, Father
— John Piper
There is a world of difference between the silence of apathy and the silence of passion!
— John Piper
Physical pain is God's trumpet blast to tell us that something is dreadfully wrong in the world.
— John Piper