Quotes about Spiritual
If you are like me, you may have strong longings from time to time for the mighty working of the holy Spirit in your life...But what I have found most often in my own life is the failure to open myself to the full measure of the Spirit's work by believing the promises of God.
— John Piper
It doesn't take a new heart to want the psychological relief of forgiveness, or the removal of God's wrath, or the inheritance of God's world. All these things are understandable without any spiritual change. You don't need to be born again to want these things. The devils want them.
— John Piper
Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.
— John Piper
If prayer is not for gratifying natural desires but for Christ-exalting fruit-bearing, the major challenge in praying is to become the kind of person who is not dominated by natural desires, but by spiritual fruit-bearing desires
— John Piper
If prayer is not for gratifying natural desires but for Christ-exalting fruit-bearing, the major challenge in praying is to become the kind of person who is not dominated by natural desires, but by spiritual fruit-bearing desires
— John Piper
The quickest way to the heart is through a wound.... Concealed sin keeps us from seeing the light of Christ.... Sin is like spiritual leprosy. It deadens your spiritual senses so that you rip your soul to shreds and don't even feel it.
— John Piper
No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions. "Mere knowledge is confessedly too weak. The affections alone remain to supply the deficiency."1
— John Piper
So the goal of spiritual leadership is to muster people to join God in living for God's glory.
— John Piper
If I were to put my finger on one devastating sin today, it would not be the so-called women's movement, but the lact of spiritual leaderhsip by men at home and in the church
— 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
No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions.
— John Piper
Spiritual emotions, which are more than physical, can have chemical effects, and not just the reverse.
— John Piper