"If the Scripture teaches that truly knowing God - knowing Christ - guards and guides and governs our sexuality in purity and love, then we may be sure that a pastor, or anyone else, whose sexuality is not governed and guarded and guided in purity and love does not know God - at least not as he ought."- John Piper
"God created human beings in his image - "male and female he created them" (Gen 1:27) - with capacities for intense sexual pleasure and with a calling to commitment in marriage and continence in singleness."- John Piper
"We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.- David Platt
A nice, middle-class, American Jesus. A Jesus who doesn't mind materialism and who would never call us to give away everything we have. A Jesus who would not expect us to forsake our closest relationships so that he receives all our affection. A Jesus who is fine with nominal devotion that does not infringe on our comforts, because, after all, he loves us just the way we are. A Jesus who wants us to be balanced, who wants us to avoid dangerous extremes, and who, for that matter, wants us to avoid danger altogether. A Jesus who brings us comfort and prosperity as we live out our Christian spin on the American dream."
"We must taste the pleasure of knowing God before we will experience the God-honoring pain of remorse for sin."- John Piper
"What I want to argue is that the most powerful and painful acts of radical obedience, beginning with remorse for sin, must be motivated by an awakened taste for pleasure in God, and that the preaching that kindles this must constantly portray God as supremely and everlastingly satisfying."- John Piper
"Christ is praised by being prized. He is magnified as a glorious treasure when He becomes our unrivaled pleasure."- John Piper
