Quotes about Existence
Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.
— William Faulkner
To live a life half dead, a living death.
— John Milton
Rather than be less car'd not to be at all.
— John Milton
All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.
— John Piper
The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.
— John Piper
God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.
— John Piper
The magnifying of Christ in the white-hot worship of all nations is the reason the world exists.
— John Piper
In John 3:16, Jesus teaches us that the God who exists loves. Let that sink in. The God who absolutely is. Loves. He loves. Of all the things you might say about God, be sure to say this: he loves.
— John Piper
The End for Which God Created the World
— John Piper
Thinking is not just entertainment on the stage of life where nothing is real. It is really useful in knowing the God who is really there. It is useful in knowing what God has revealed about himself and about this world and how we should live in it.
— John Piper
Jesus' primary concern—the very first petition of the prayer he teaches—is that more and more people, and more and more peoples, come to hallow God's name. This is the reason the universe exists. Missions exists because this hallowing does not.
— John Piper
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
— John Piper