John Piper World Quotations

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

You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.

I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.

Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

So, you have three possibilities in world missions. You can be a goer, a sender, or disobedient. The Bible does not assume that everyone goes. But it does assume that the ones who do not go care about goers and support goers and pray for goers and hold the rope of the goers.

Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.

What is God looking for in the world? Assistants? No. The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. It is a help-available ad. God is not looking for people to work for Him but people who let Him work mightily in and through them.

The further 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.

What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.