Noël Piper > Quotes

“Christ loved me enough to die for me while I was yet His enemy. If God had waited for me to learn to love Him before He died, I would never have been saved. I knew that with my head, but when I met someone who behaved in such a completely Christlike way, I was amazed. - Helen Roseveare”
― Noel Piper, Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God

“We reveal to ourselves and others what is important to us by the way we celebrate.”
― Noël Piper, Treasuring God in Our Traditions

“When suffering is great, we are vulnerable to doubt. She”
― Noël Piper, Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God

“Not everything children experience has to be put on their level in order to do them good. Some things must be. But not everything.”
― Noël Piper, Treasuring God in Our Traditions

“You can't impart what you don't possess.”
― Noël Piper, Treasuring God in Our Traditions

“Clothes are not meant to make people think about what is under the clothes. Clothes are meant to direct attention to what is not under them: merciful hands that serve others in the name of Christ, beautiful feet that carry the gospel where it is needed, and the brightness of a face that has beheld the glory of Jesus.”
― Noël Piper, This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence

“found frequently that I climbed in glorious sunshine . . . my face set determinedly for the nearest peak I could see. As I reached it, I revelled in the sense of achievement and victory and in the glorious view. . . . Then, slowly, my imagination would be caught by the next peak ahead . . . and eventually the resolve would form to set off upwards again. . . . As I went down from the present peak into the valley between the mountains, I was often shadowed by the very peak I had been enjoying. This I interpreted in a sense of failure and this often led to despair. . . . I see now that I was wrong. . . . The going down was merely an initial moving for-ward towards the next higher ground, never a going back to base level, so to speak. The shadow was only relative after the brightness of the sun; the valley could provide a period of rest for working out the experiences previously learnt, a time for refreshment preparatory for the next hard climb. Had I understood this meaning of the sunshine and shadow in my life rather than interpreting my various experiences along life’s way as “up” and “down,” I might have saved myself many deep heartaches.246”
― Noël Piper, Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God