John Piper (John Stephen Piper) Quotes

Sin carries in it its own misery.

John Piper

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• Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Men
  • Sin

• I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

  

  Kajol
  • Home
  • Sin
  • Visit

• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Sin
  • Paradise
  • Return

• Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • American
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Single
  • Sin
  • Reward

• The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Pride
  • First
  • Sin

• The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

  

  Paul Washer
  • Words
  • Dresses
  • Carries

• Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Sin
  • Natural

• Sin is cosmic treason

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Sin
  • Cosmic
  • Treason

• I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Power

• I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.

  

  Beverly D'Angelo
  • Knows
  • Christmas
  • Misery

• It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Truth
  • Amazing

• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Life
  • Sin
  • Burden

• My life has run from misery to happiness.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Life
  • Running
  • Misery

• If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Misery
  • Would Be

• What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Sin

• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poverty
  • Sin
  • Shame

• Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • Law
  • Like

• Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Virtue

• Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Men
  • Sin
  • Joke

• Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to see itself. This is indeed amazing. Not so much in view of what it sees, although this may appear fantastic enough, but in respect of the fact that it can see at all. But in order to do so, evidently it must first cut itself up into a least one state which sees, and at least one other state which is seen.

  

  George Spencer-Brown
  • World
  • State
  • Sees

• How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Universe

• Sin carries in it its own misery.

  

  John Piper
  • Sin
  • Misery
  • Carries