John Piper (John Stephen Piper) Quotes
Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture.
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These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should not, reward that. No amnesty. No ability to vote. Get those borders secure, and then deal with that situation.
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
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Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
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If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
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The flames of freedom which were lighted across this great land of ours in Thomas Jefferson's day have continued to burn with an intense and magnetic light for nearly 200 years. They have been fed by the spiritual fuel which abounds only in a land where an abiding faith in God and recognition of Him as the true Author of Liberty prevail.
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Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.
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That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.
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We work and that is godlike.
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To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.
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Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
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But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
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Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.
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Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture.
