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.

John Piper

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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.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Country
  • Laws
  • Vote

• My manager has season tix to the Dodgers, four seats to 40 games, and they're right behind the plate, I mean, they're amazing, food and waiter service, which is insane.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Service

• When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Past
  • Prison
  • Embrace

• It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Good
  • Proud

• When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Time
  • Work
  • Think

• Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Jesus
  • Christ
  • Name

• At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Life

• Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life

• If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Rest
  • Angry

• 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.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Great
  • God
  • True

• 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.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Reading
  • Inspiration
  • Exercise

• That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Truth
  • Doe
  • Accepting

• Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Die
  • Fly

• Spend at least an hour today giving your fullest gift, whatever that is for today, so that when you go to sleep at night you know you couldn't have lived your day with more courage, creativity, and giving.

  

  David Deida
  • Today
  • Night
  • Giving

• When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Great
  • America
  • Kings

• I want them [female fans] to not be afraid to live life, to not be afraid to make bad decisions because there are a lot of lessons and blessings in those decisions. Sometimes, if you don't fall into the pit, you won't reach out to God.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ideas
  • Talent
  • Curiosity

• 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.

  

  John Piper
  • Worship
  • Creator
  • Depend