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We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.
— John Piper
Tags: faith, christ

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The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.
— John Piper
Tags: deserve, someone, better, justice
God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.
— John Piper
Tags: who, die, god, life
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.
— John Piper
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You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.
— John Piper
Tags: people, yourself, you, freedom
I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.
— John Piper
Tags: know, lose, job, me
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