John Piper (John Stephen Piper) Quotes

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

John Piper

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• Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Fun

• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Man
  • Respect

• When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Done
  • Nice
  • New York

• I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • House
  • Woman
  • Write

• I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Anything

• I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Games
  • Adventure
  • Characters

• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Sometimes
  • Goal
  • Grit

• This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Never
  • Beauty
  • Something

• Most of my work is based in Hyderabad, so it makes sense that I own a house here. Another reason I want a home here is because I want to have my own kitchen so that I can cook, since I hate food from hotels.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Home
  • House

• I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Fly
  • Pants
  • Seat

• I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Training
  • Nobody
  • Coach

• I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Feel

• Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Mood

• Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Color
  • inspirational

• My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Expected
  • Grandpa
  • Planned

• I think every single girl has something different and special about her. You find one who clicks with your vibe.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Different
  • Think
  • Girl

• A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.

  

  Arnold Adoff
  • Music
  • Elements
  • Poem

• I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Life
  • Live
  • Freedom

• My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Son
  • Married
  • Realize

• I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Enjoy
  • I Love
  • Realize

• Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

  

  John Piper
  • Realize
  • Redemption
  • Imperfections