John Piper Sin Quotations

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.

Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.

History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin.

Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

When it comes to killing my sin, I don't wait for the miracle, I act the miracle.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.