Desiring God by John Piper

Excerpts:“Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn’t mean I orchestrate the tragedies.”“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.”“The real underlying flaw in your life is that you don’t think that I am good.”

Excerpts:“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”“Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.”“I want to be able to be in a room with somebody I don’t agree…

Excerpts:“The Spirit will lead you to the way of the cross, and that is definitely not a safe or pretty or comfortable place to be.”“The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something you wouldn’t normally want or choose to do.”“We are most…

I have been passionate about books my entire life. In grade school, my teacher assigned a series of reports on the provinces of Canada. Each week, I wrote one report, and by the end of the term, I gathered them all, added a table of contents and a title page, and bound them with yarn….

Excerpts:“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”“The more you know and the better you understand, the more severely will you be judged, unless your life is also the more holy.”“What good is it to argue about the Trinity…

Excerpts:“The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.”“God is not a concept to be discussed; He is a person to be loved.”“The heart is the connecting point, the meeting place between any two persons.”