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John Piper Quotes

The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.

John Piper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: January 11, 1946

Topics

History Thinking Philosophy Feeling

It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.

Jesse Kellerman

Parents Me Growing Up Legacy Growing

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

John Irving

You Stay Got Get Obsessed

We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others.

Sid Meier

Love People Others 21st Century Few

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Hunting Get Just Humans About Vile

Honestly, I sleep best wearing nothing. But with kids, I've learned to sleep with underwear very close by, if not wrapped around one of my feet, so I'm ready to go if something happens.

Dierks Bentley

Best Sleep Feet Ready Go Nothing

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

Deborah Moggach

People Want Punishment Take Tragic

Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.

Anthony Doerr

School Me Mom Weather Library She

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Freedom Doing Flag Punishing Emblem

When I was growing up, everyone dressed the same. You had to have bootcut pants and chunky heels.

Sutton Foster

Growing Up You Dressed Growing Pants

I can pretty much say that because of Bruce Lee and Jean-Claude Van Damme, that's why I do what I do today.

Scott Adkins

Today I Can Say Why Pretty Because

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

Seamus Heaney

Heart Learn Difficult Off Poems

Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate.

Mariam Naficy

Family Thought Design Possible Over