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The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

~John Piper

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I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

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My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

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The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

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One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

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God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

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Sin carries in it its own misery.

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Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

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God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.

~John Piper

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Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.

~John Piper

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: January 11th, 1946

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