God's Passion for His Glory Quotes

“Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls, and in order to practice. . . . Practice according to what knowledge you have. This will be the way to know more. .”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“Resolved: To live with all my might while I do live." And”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“One part of that divine fullness which is communicated is the divine knowledge. That communicated knowledge, which must be supposed to pertain to God's last end in creating the world, is the creature's knowledge of HIM. For this is the end of all other knowledge, and even the faculty of understanding would be vain without it.”
― Jonathan Edwards, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“God is glorified not only by His glory's being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. When those that see it delight in it, God is more glorified than if they only see it. His glory is then received by the whole soul, both by the understanding and by the heart. God made the world that He might communicate, and the creature receive, His glory; and that it might [be] received both by the mind and heart. He that testifies his idea of God's glory [doesn't] glorify God so much as he that testifies also his approbation of it and his delight in it. Jonathan Edwards Miscellanies”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“God created the world to exhibit the fullness of His glory in the God-centered joy of His people.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“Implicación #10. La esencia de la auténtica adoración corporativa es la experiencia colectiva de una sincera satisfacción en la gloria de Dios o el temor de no tenerla y un gran anhelo por ella. La Adoración es para magnificar a Dios, no a nosotros, y Dios es magnificado en nosotros cuando nos satisfacemos en Él. Por lo tanto, la esencia inmutable de la adoración (no la forma externa que si cambia) es la satisfacción profunda y sincera en la gloria de Dios, el temor de no tenerla y el anhelo de ella.”
― John Piper, La Pasión de Dios por Su Gloria: Viviendo la Visión de Jonathan Edwards

“God, in glorifying the saints in heaven with eternal felicity, aims to satisfy his infinite grace or benevolence, by the bestowment of a good infinitely valuable, because eternal: and yet there never will come the moment, when it can be said, that now this infinitely valuable good has been actually bestowed.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“if God be this center, then God aimed at himself. And herein it appears, that as he is the first author of their being and motion, so he is the last end, the final term, to which is their ultimate tendency and aim.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“If God has respect to something in the creature, which he views as of everlasting duration, and as rising higher and higher through that infinite duration, and that not with constantly diminishing (but perhaps an increasing) celerity;114 then he has respect to it, as, in the whole, of infinite height; though there never will be any particular time when it can be said already to have come to such a height.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“In the creature's knowing, esteeming, loving, rejoicing in, and praising God, the glory of God is both exhibited and acknowledged; his fullness is received and returned. Here is both an emanation and remanation. The refulgence shines upon and into the creature, and is reflected back to the luminary. The beams of glory come from God, are something of God, and are refunded back again to their original. So that the whole is of God, and in God, and to God; and he is the beginning, and the middle, and the end.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“God communicates himself to the understanding of the creature, in giving him the knowledge of his glory; and to the will of the creature, in giving him holiness, consisting primarily in the love of God: and in giving the creature happiness, chiefly consisting in joy in God.108 These are the sum of that emanation of divine fullness called in Scripture, the glory of God. The first part of this glory is called truth, the latter, grace,”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“the communication of God's joy and happiness, consists chiefly in communicating to the creature that happiness and joy which consists in rejoicing in God, and in his glorious excellency; for in such joy God's own happiness does principally consist. And in these things, knowing God's excellency, loving God for it, and rejoicing in it, and in the exercise and expression of these, consists God's honor and praise; so that these are clearly implied in that glory of God, which consists in the emanation of his internal glory.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“So God's eternity is not a distinct good; but is the duration of good. His immutability is still the same good, with a negation of change. So that, as I said, the fullness of the Godhead is the fullness of his understanding, consisting in his knowledge; and the fullness of his will consisting in his virtue and happiness.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“It includes the exercise of God's perfections to produce a proper effect, in opposition to their lying eternally dormant and ineffectual: as his power being eternally without any act or fruit of that power; his wisdom eternally ineffectual in any wise production, or prudent disposal of any thing, &c. The manifestation of his internal glory to created understandings. The communication of the infinite fullness of God to the creature. The creature's high esteem of God, love to him, and complacence [i.e., satisfaction, delight] and joy in him; and the proper exercises and expressions of these.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“The thing signified by that name, the glory of God, when spoken of as the supreme and ultimate102 end of all God's works, is the emanation and true external expression of God's internal glory and fullness; meaning”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“For it appears, that all that is ever spoken of in the Scripture as an ultimate end of God's works, is included in that one phrase, the glory of God; which”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“That God uses the whole creation, in his government of it, for the good of his people, is most elegantly represented in Deuteronomy 33:26. "There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun,84 who rideth upon the heaven." The whole universe is a machine or chariot which God hath made for his own use, as is represented in Ezekiel's vision. God's seat is heaven, where he sits and governs, Ezekiel 1:22, 26-28. The inferior part of the creation, this visible universe, subject to such continual changes and revolutions, are the wheels of the chariot. God's providence, in the constant revolutions, alterations, and successive events, is represented by the motion of the wheels of the chariot, by the Spirit of him who sits on his throne on the heavens or above the firmament. Moses tells us for whose sake it is that God moves the wheels of this chariot or rides in it, sitting in his heavenly seat, and to what end he is making his progress or goes his appointed journey in it, viz. the salvation of his people.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“[God] had respect to himself, as his last and highest end, in this work; because he is worthy in himself to be so, being infinitely the greatest and best of beings. All things else, with regard to worthiness, importance, and excellence, are perfectly as nothing in comparison of him. All that is ever spoken of in the Scripture as an ultimate end of God's works is included in that one phrase, the glory of God.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“When God is so often spoken of as the last as well as the first, the end as well as the beginning, it is implied that as he is the first, efficient58 cause and fountain from whence all things originate; so, he is the last, final cause for which they are made; the final term to which they all tend in their ultimate issue. This”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“This delight which God has in his creature's happiness cannot properly be said to be what God receives from the creature. For it is only the effect of his own work in and communications to the creature, in making it and admitting it to a participation of his fullness, as the sun receives nothing from the jewel that receives its light and shines only by a participation of its brightness.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“our concern with truth is an inevitable expression of our concern with God. If God exists, then he is the measure of all things, and what he thinks about all things is the measure of what we should think. Not to care about truth is not to care about God. To love God passionately is to love truth passionately. Being God-centered in life means being truth-driven in ministry. What is not true is not of God. What is false is anti-God. Indifference to the truth is indifference to the mind of God. Pretense is rebellion against reality, and what makes reality reality is God. Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God. And all this is rooted in God's concern with God, or God's passion for the glory of God.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“the pursuit of our soul's satisfaction--our joy and delight and happiness--is not sin. Sin is the exact opposite: pursuing happiness where no lasting happiness can be found. "My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns, that can hold no water" (Jer. 2:13, RSV). Sin is trying to quench our unquenchable soul-thirst anywhere but in God. Or, more subtly, sin is pursuing satisfaction in the right direction, but with lukewarm, halfhearted affections (Rev. 3:16).”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“Who has it in his power to have such a motive present to his mind that his will shall be influenced to believe? Who can welcome in his mind something which does not give him delight? But who has it in his power to ensure that something that will delight him will turn up? Or that he will take delight in what turns up? If those things delight us which serve our advancement towards God, that is due not to our own whim or industry or meritorious works, but to the inspiration of God and to the grace which he bestows.20 So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“Every man, whatsoever his condition, desires to be happy. There is no man who does not desire this, and each one desires it with such earnestness that he prefers it to all other things; whoever, in fact, desires other things, desires them for this end alone.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“This I suppose to be that blessed Trinity that we read of in the holy Scriptures. The Father is the deity subsisting in the prime, unoriginated and most absolute manner, or the deity in its direct existence. The Son is the deity generated by God's understanding, or having an idea of Himself and subsisting in that idea. The Holy Ghost is the deity subsisting in act, or the divine essence flowing out and breathed forth in God's infinite love to and delight in Himself. And I believe the whole Divine essence does truly and distinctly subsist both in the Divine idea and Divine love, and that each of them are properly distinct persons.13 You can see how this understanding of the Trinity coheres with what Edwards says about the conception of God glorifying himself in two ways: by being known and being loved or enjoyed.14 That corresponds to the very way the Godhead exists: the Son is the standing forth of God knowing himself perfectly, and the Spirit is the standing forth of God loving himself perfectly. You”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“Because [God] infinitely values his own glory, consisting in the knowledge of himself, love to himself, [that is,] complacence4 and joy in himself; he therefore valued the image, communication or participation of these, in the creature. And it is because he values himself, that he delights in the knowledge, and love, and joy of the creature; as being himself the object of this knowledge, love and complacence [i.e., satisfaction, delight]. . . . [Thus] God's respect to the creature's good [that is, our passion to be satisfied], and his respect to himself [that is, his passion to be glorified], is not a divided respect; but both are united in one, as the happiness of the creature aimed at, is happiness in union with himself.5”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“I paraphrased Edwards with the words, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." Here my paraphrase is: "The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying him forever." This is the essence of what I call "Christian hedonism.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“Mind and Love. These two words correspond to one of the deepest lessons Edwards ever taught. Mind (or understanding) and love (or affection) correspond to two great acts of the Godhead, and two ways that humans in his image reflect back to God his own glory. Here's”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“God is glorified not only by His glory's being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards