Quotes about Revelation
all the gifts of God are given for the sake of revealing more of God's glory, so that the proper use of them is to rest our affections not on them but through them on God alone. What I mean by resting our affections is that the desires of our hearts find their end point-their goal, their resting place-only in God, even though, as it were, they ride up to God on a thousand gifts.
— John Piper
terms are an effort to describe the whole of biblical revelation. They are an effort to say yes to all of the Bible and not silence any of it. They are a way to say yes to the universal, saving will of 1 Timothy 2:4 and yes to the individual unconditional election of Romans 9:6
— John Piper
Everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed." Concealed sin keeps us from seeing the light of Christ.
— John Piper
To hear the gospel faithfully and fully presented is to be responsible to see divine glory.
— John Piper
God will be glorified both by the intensity of the present delight that we have in his beauty and by the intensity of the desires we have for more revelation of his fullness.
— John Piper
I have no sure sight of God's glory except through his word. The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.
— John Piper
God did not create the world to keep his glory invisible, and he did not re-create Christians to keep our passion for his glory invisible
— John Piper
God reveals more or less of his glory in different times and settings. But it is always his glory! It is never minor. Never insignificant. Never negligible. It is always some measure of the infinite excellence. It is always worthy of seeing and knowing and loving.
— John Piper
We depend on him for our being and for our knowing—especially our knowing of him. We are because he is. We know because he reveals. We do not originate our existence or our knowledge. He is the ultimate source and foundation of both.
— John Piper
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— 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
What must be seen is not mere news and not mere knowledge. What must be seen is light.
— John Piper