The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.
John PiperGod is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the most loving thing. Anyone else who exalts himself distracts us from what we need, namely, God.
John PiperNot to aim to show God is not to love, bc God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end.
John PiperNot to aim to show God is not to love, because God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end.
John PiperThis sounds very strange. Most of us think serving God is a totally positive thing; we have not considered that serving God may be an insult to him.
John PiperOn the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought.
John PiperThe great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.
John PiperAn eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.
John PiperTag: beauty wonder optimism-q
God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him.
John PiperThe one God has chosen unconditionally he keeps invincibly. Being and staying a believer is decisively of sovereign grace.
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