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“Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?”

Quote by John Piper

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John Piper

John Piper is a renowned Christian author and theologian, born on January 11, 1946. His works cover a wide range of topics including Christian theology, spiritual growth, and biblical studies, and have been highly appreciated by readers worldwide. more

“Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.”

People Heart Jobs Sports Worship Satisfaction Supreme Guilty Leisure Toys Prestige Heart Ache

Author:John Piper

“So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.”

Heart Whole Form Taken Worship Happenings Seasons Sunday Testament Ceremony New Testament Thrust

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“We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.”

Persons Pleasure Worship Belittle

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“Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.”

Way Heart Done Duty Worship Mere Affection Arise Spontaneous Reflecting Radiance Reflecting Back

Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist