Desiring God Quotes

“Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others. The overflow is experienced consciously as the pursuit of our joy in the joy of another. We double our delight in God as we expand it it the lives of others. If our ultimate goal were anything less than joy in God, we would be idolaters and no eternal help to anyone. Therefore, the pursuit of pleasure is an essential motive for every good deed. And if you aim to abandon the pursuit if of full and lasting pleasure, you cannot love people or please God.”
― John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.”
― Dillon Burroughs, Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms

“Do you want me? I am yours.”
― Mark Andrew Poe, Ending Easter

“Indeed the devil thinks more true thoughts about God in one day than a saint does in a lifetime, and God is not honored by it. The problem with the devil is not his theology, but his desires. Our chief end is to glorify God, the great Object. We do so most fully when we treasure him, desire him, delight in him so supremely that we let goods and kindred go and display his love to the poor and the lost.”
― John Piper, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight For Joy

“There are two ways in which a practical moralist may attempt to displace from the human heart its love for the world — either by a demonstration of the world’s vanity, so that the heart shall be prevailed upon simply to withdraw its regards from an object that is not worthy of it; or, by setting forth another object, even God, as more worthy of its attachment, so that the heart shall be prevailed upon not to resign an old affection, which shall have nothing to succeed it, but to exchange an old affection for a new one... From the constitution of our nature, the former method is altogether incompetent and ineffectual, and the latter method will alone suffice for the rescue and recovery of the heart from the wrong affection that domineers over it.”
― Thomas Chalmers, The Expulsive Power of a New Affection

“So I'm waiting for God, and God is waiting for me to see if I am really waiting for him, and not just wanting things from him.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“We will not find a frustrated, gloomy, irritable Father who wants to be left alone, but a Father whose heart is so full of joy that it spills over unto all those (Christian Hedonists) who are thirty.”
― John Piper

“The quickest way to the heart is through a wound.... Concealed sin keeps us from seeing the light of Christ.... Sin is like spiritual leprosy. It deadens your spiritual senses so that you rip your soul to shreds and don't even feel it.”
― John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“Worship is nothing less than obedience to the command of God: "Delight yourself in the Lord"!”
― John Piper

“The desire to pray is hardwired into the soul of the believer.”
― Kevin P. Halloran