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.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Country
  • Vote
  • Laws

• 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
  • Acceptance

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Die
  • For Her

• 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

• We're gonna hunt you down like a mad dog hound and make you pay for the lives you stole.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Dog
  • Mad
  • Pay

• I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

  

  Stephen Frears
  • Film
  • Teach
  • Testimony

• I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I came face-to-face with the question of death and I dealt with it. From that point on, I no longer needed a gun nor have I been afraid. Had we become distracted by the question of my safety we would have lost the moral offensive and sunk to the level of our oppressors.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Death
  • Question
  • Safety

• How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Book
  • Worship
  • Stones

• 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