A Peculiar Glory Quotes

“In other words, the path to glory for God’s incarnate representative on earth was the path through suffering. The path to majesty was through meekness. The path to exaltation was through humility. The path to power was through weakness.”
― John Piper, A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness

“There is no portrait of Jesus in the New Testament as a merely human teacher of ethics. There is only the Lord of glory. The fulfiller of history. The judge of the universe.”
― John Piper, A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness

“The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.”
― John Piper, A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness

“This understanding of the divine will and the human will at work together is not restricted to the writing of Scripture. It pervades all human life. For example, consider Joseph, one of Jacob’s twelve sons, who was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt. When he was promoted to ruler in Egypt, he said to his brothers, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (Gen. 50:20). It does not say, “You meant it for evil, but God used it for good,” as though God’s intention and action came in after they sold Joseph. No. It says that they had a meaning in their action, and God had a meaning in their action. The two intentions were both real and simultaneous.”
― John Piper, A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness

“This is the great divide on how we approach the Bible. Does it express the heart and mind of a divine person, or is it merely a record of human religious experience?”
― John Piper, A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness

“In and through the Scriptures we see the glory of God. What the apostles of Jesus saw face-to-face they impart to us through their words. “That”
― John Piper, A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness

“Not seeing the divine glory of Christ in the gospel is blameworthy. It is not an innocent blindness, but a culpable love of darkness. “They”
― John Piper, A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness