“Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.”
More from John Piper on Faith
“The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature”
“Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.”
“Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.”
“A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.”
“God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.”
“There is hope in forgiveness”
“Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.”
“I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.”
“We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.”
“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him”
Others on Faith
Elizabeth George
30 quotes“God’s Word is written for you and to you, but it won’t help unless you read it.”
Saint Augustine
27 quotes“Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”
Billy Graham
26 quotes“Not everyone Jesus tried to turn back from the brink of destruction responded—nor will they with us.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
24 quotes“May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.”
Rick Warren
24 quotes“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”
A.W. Tozer
22 quotes“As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God....”
John Calvin
21 quotes“True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.”
Charles Spurgeon
20 quotes“Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?”
C.S. Lewis
17 quotes“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
Max Lucado
17 quotes“When grace moves in... guilt moves out”
Joel Osteen
16 quotes“You need to take pride in what God has given you.”
Jesus Christ
14 quotes“I Am The Way, The Truth and The Life; no one comes to The Father but by Me”