“If we are attracted by the desirability of something God promises, and hope to enjoy it without enjoying God in it and by it, then we are turning God’s promise into a summons to idolatry.”
John Piper
Dispossess
“The only way to dispossess the heart of an old affection, is by the expulsive power of a new one.”
Thomas Chalmers
Ultimate Goal
“The Bible itself shows that our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God’s infinite worth and beauty would be exalted in the everlasting, white-hot worship of the blood bought bride of Christ from every people, language, tribe and nation.”
John Piper
Done Everything
“So Jesus has done everything that we needed to be saved from sin. He has done everything we needed in order for us to be saved from the judgment of death. And he has done everything necessary to set us free from the bondage of the Devil. In a word, he has done everything we need done for us but could never do for ourselves. “
Alistair Begg/Sinclair Ferguson
The Real Man
Jesus is the real man, or, in Martin Luther’s expression “The Proper Man.” He is “man as he was created to be” and “the man who fulfills man’s destiny.”
Alistair Begg/Sinclair Ferguson
Untroubled
“If you find the Christian life to be untroubled, without struggle, and without warfare against your own sin, you may not be living the Christian life.”
John Piper
Nothing More Beautiful
“Nothing exists that is greater or better or more beautiful or more satisfying than God himself.”
John Piper
Cheap Grace
“It is cheap grace, not genuine grace, that thinks life in Christ is without remorse for past sin and for remaining corruption.”
John Piper