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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fd0b93e | Fear doesn't stop a warrior. It pushes you further. | life | Chloe Neill | |
| 12114cd | Given how I feel right now, I can only assume that my giving you the same bullshit platitudes earlier didn't help you, either. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 6e73b63 | On the contrary, Christian Hedonists are persuaded with Edwards that the only affections that magnify God's value are those that come from true apprehensions of His glory. If the feast of worship is rare in the land, it is because there is a famine of the Word of God (Amos 8:11-12). | John Piper | ||
| 9dcbda9 | Don't make peace with the sin in your life. | spiritual-warfare | John Piper | |
| a59c5b1 | Back in high school, I never understood how Amy could enjoy getting with guys just for the short haul. In a way, though, making out like this is more enjoyable because there's no pressure for me to not do or say anything stupid. What's the worst that can happen if I do? So I'm freer to focus on what I'm feeling, not what he feels about me. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 288e189 | How is it that human anatomy evolved so that something as stupid-looking as a repetitive back-and-forth movement can generate the peak of physical ecstasy? | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 86bf4bd | Your love interest becomes the most important thing to you. And if the love is requited, it's the biggest high in the universe, and you'd be fine never being with anyone else. But if this person doesn't want you back, well, you pretty much wish you were dead . . . or that that person dies miserable. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| cac1564 | Some scientists hypothesize that having children is the only reason romantic love came about. It kept couples together long enough to mate and see a baby through infancy. | sex | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 81565f2 | I wasn't expecting him to light candles or scatter rose petals. But I just made myself infertile for him, so the least he could've done was make the bed. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 787e230 | It goes back to keeping things equal. Friendship feels really demeaning if one person still likes the other more, which is probably what caused the breakup in the first place. It's such a misnomer that 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend' have the word 'friend' in them." "I don't know, Dom. It's screwed up that people who dug each other enough to go out can't at least stay friends afterward. "Spoken by a true love virgin." | love relationships sex | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 1424fd6 | So it's all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it's wrong if I'm not ready to settle for less? | relationships | Daria Snadowsky | |
| bbfbc3c | Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting. | young-adult | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 76cf413 | But recalling how my ex had nasty BO after track practice never made me feel better. It seemed disingenuous to hold things against him that before I readily accepted as the price of love. | love | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 67cdee3 | I didn't realize it was possible to obsess over a girl as much as you can over a boy. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| e2197bc | Ultimately, I have no power over what he or any boy thinks of me. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| c4e3c35 | I hate how it's so much easier to be open and straightforward to a computer screen than to an actual person. | dating friendship technology | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 1eeb002 | When presented with a member of the opposite sex, some of us get numbers and some of us throw up. | dating humor nervousness | Daria Snadowsky | |
| d183f61 | The key to endurance in the cause of self-sacrificing love is not heroic willpower, but deep, unshakable confidence that the joy we have tasted in fellowship with Christ will not disappoint us in death. | John Piper | ||
| b0798e2 | Don't waste your life on experiments. There are proven paths. They are marked out in the Word of God. They are understandable. They are precious. They are hard. And they are joyful. Search the Scriptures for these paths. When you find them, step on them with humble faith and courage. Set your face like flint toward the cross and the empty tomb-- your cross and your empty tomb. Then, for the joy set before you, may a lifetime of sacrifices i.. | John Piper | ||
| 15bf51e | Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God. Once when Jesus' disciples wondered about the salvation of a man who desired money more than God, he said to them, "With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God" (Mark 10:27). Pursuing w.. | christian-devotional christian-life desire freedom heart jesus | John Piper | |
| 492f08c | When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. Worship, therefore, is the fuel and the goal of missions.8 | John Piper | ||
| b1f252f | Some of us are afraid of getting too emotional when we sing. But the problem isn't emotions. It's emotionalism. Emotionalism pursues feelings as ends in themselves. It's wanting to feel something with no regard for how that feeling is produced or its ultimate purpose. | John Piper | ||
| a5bd645 | Pragmatism and subjectivism obscure the reality of the truth. They engage the mind, but they make it the servant of our desires and our work. But they can't answer which desires I should pursue and which work is worthwhile. | John Piper | ||
| 2bdbb71 | Picture salvation as a house that you live in. It provides you with protection. It is stocked with food and drink that will last forever. It never decays or crumbles. Its windows open onto vistas of glory. God built it at great cost to Himself and to His Son, and He gave it to you. The purchase agreement is called a 'new covenant.' The terms read: 'This house shall become and remain yours if you will receive it as a gift and take delight in.. | John Piper | ||
| e51ef0c | The point is that an $80,000 or a $180,000 salary does not have to be accompanied by an $80,000 or a $180,000 lifestyle. God is calling us to be conduits of his grace, not cul-de-sacs. Our great danger today is thinking that the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do. No matter how grateful we are, gold will not make the world think that our God is good; it will make people think that our god is gold. That is no hon.. | John Piper | ||
| 968d5a5 | Tell people the good news from a heart of love and a life of service. | John Piper | ||
| db1950c | Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment of entertainment to the next. It is the inability to be shocked into action by the steady-state lostness and suffering of the world. It is the emptiness that comes from thinking of godliness as the avoidance of doing bad things instead of the aggressive pursuit of doing good things. | John Piper | ||
| d7f06ad | Richard Foster is justified in writing: I am concerned that our reading and our writing is gravitating to the lowest common denominator so completely that the great themes of majesty and nobility and felicity are made to seem trite, puny, pedestrian. . . . I am concerned about the state of the soul in the midst of all the cheap sensory overload going on today. You see, without what Alfred North Whitehead called "an habitual vision of greatn.. | John Piper | ||
| 3b2cfa4 | When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance - wisdom, might and riches - they form a powerful inducement toward the ultimate form of pride, namely, atheism. The safest way to stay supreme in our own estimation is to deny anything above us. This is why the proud preoccupy themselves with looking down on others. A proud man is always looking down on things and people and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you c.. | self-reliance | John Piper | |
| ea3ca02 | When God appoints the gospel of his Son as the universal remedy for the guilt and corruption of mankind, and we diminish that, the gospel is diminished. And you cannot diminish the gospel without being diminished yourself. | gospel jesus | John Piper | |
| 39e3464 | A famous cigarette billboard pictures a curly-headed, bronze-faced, muscular macho with a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. The sign reads 'Where a man belongs.' That is a lie. Where a man belongs is at the bedside of his children, leading in devotion and prayer. Where a man belongs is leading his family to the house of God. Where a man belongs is up early and alone with God seeking vision and direction for the family. | John Piper | ||
| 09167fc | The sins that should have brought condemnation on us, God laid on Jesus. God's love planned an amazing exchange: Jesus endured what we deserved so that we might enjoy what he deserved--eternal life. And the way we come to enjoy this life is by believing in Jesus. That's what he said: 'Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life' (John 6:47; cf. Luke 8:12). | John Piper | ||
| e096d10 | The sun of God's glory was made to shine at the center of the solar system of our soul. And when it does, all the planets of our life are held in their proper orbit. | John Piper | ||
| 876f92c | Therefore, the task of all Christian scholarship- not just biblical studies- is to study reality as a manifestation of God's glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to m.. | John Piper | ||
| 471c8f7 | Jesus came into the world with good news, not bad news. He does not call us to a willpower religion that feels only duty and no delight. He calls us to himself and to his Father. Therefore, he calls us to joy. Of course, it is not joy in things. Jesus is not preaching a health, wealth, and prosperity gospel--one of America's most lamentable exports to the world. It is joy in God and in his Son. | John Piper | ||
| 061fcbf | Belief in Jesus does not come by the waving of a magic wand. It comes by hearing the word of God through Jesus. | John Piper | ||
| fc135ed | If we only trust Christ to give us gifts and not himself as the all-satisfying gift, then we do not trust him in a way that honors him as our treasure. We simply honor the gifts. They are what we really want, not him. | John Piper | ||
| 4bdff14 | O Father, touch us with fresh faith that we might believe the incredible. The very pain of Christ that makes us despair is our salvation. Open our fearful hearts to receive the gospel. Waken the dead parts of our hearts that cannot feel what must be felt-that we are loved with the deepest, strongest, purest love in the universe. | John Piper | ||
| 6224237 | The discipline to rise early is not as difficult as the discipline of going to bed. This did not used to be so. Before electricity and radio and television and the Internet, going to bed soon after dark was not so difficult. There was not much to do. Today the strongest allurements to stay up and be entertained are against us. Therefore, the battle against weariness, which makes us drowsy as soon as we open our Bible in the morning, has to .. | John Piper | ||
| be95b6a | When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do. A. C. Dixon | John Piper | ||
| 8d8faaf | What is love for, if not to intensify our affections--both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive to be bitter. | emotions grief | John Piper | |
| dc0fa4d | Therefore, we read the Bible selectively. We pick a text here and there to fit our felt needs. This is like a doctor who forgets how to write prescriptions for the best antibiotics because every- body seems healthy, and he has spent the last decades tweaking good health with hip-hop exercise videos, unaware that pestilence is at the door. It's like the soldier who forgets how to use his weapons because the times seem peaceful, and he has sp.. | John Piper | ||
| a99431a | There never has been a greater act of love than that Jesus laid down his life to save sinners (John 15:13; Rom. 5:6-8). | John Piper | ||
| ced786c | The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse. | John Piper |