50 + Powerful and Shareable Easter Quotes By John Piper

Easter is a significant event for Christians worldwide, as it commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is a time of reflection, renewal, and celebration, and as such, it is marked with various traditions and festivities. In the spirit of the season, theologian and pastor John Piper has compiled a collection of powerful and shareable Easter quotes that inspire and uplift the soul. With over 50 carefully selected quotes, this compilation speaks to the heart of Easter, conveying the message of hope, redemption, and the power of God's love. 

Whether you're looking for inspirational Easter messages to share with friends and family, or seeking to deepen your own understanding and appreciation of this holy event, this collection is an invaluable resource that offers profound insights and perspectives on the Easter story. Join us as we explore the wisdom and teachings of John Piper, and discover the beauty and significance of Easter in a whole new light.

1. “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”

2. “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t.”

3. “The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.”

4. “God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.”

5. “The more of God’s Word you know and love, the more of God’s Spirit you will experience.”

6. “If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.”

7. “Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.”

8. “The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.”

9. “Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.”

10. “Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.”

11. “Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.”

12. “Books don’t change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.”

13. “May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.”

14. “Don’t ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.”

15. “God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.”

16. “If you don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”

17. “Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises.”

18. “Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don’t presume you will have it tomorrow, and don’t waste it today.”

19. “Mission exists because worship doesn’t.”

20. “If God’s love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.”

21. “The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.”

22. “Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.”

23. “Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn’t happen if you didn’t pray.”

24. “This is God’s universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.”

25. “God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.”

26. “One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.”

27. “Go, send, or disobey.”

28. “I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.”

29. “It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.”

30. “If you are sufficient for your task, it’s too small.”

31. “In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.”

32. “We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.”

33. “Our obedience is God’s pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.”

34. “One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God’s promises.”

35. “There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.”

36. “We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.”

37. “We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.”

38. “Your mind was made to know and love God.”

39. “Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions.”

40. “Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.”

41. “Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.”

42. “The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

43. “One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.”

44. “Every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.”

45. “Blind people don’t decide to see. Jesus says, ‘See!’ and they see.”

46. “Grace is power, not just pardon.”

47. “The purpose of the Lord’s Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.”

48. “The cross is not a mere event in history; it’s a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!”

49. “You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they’re out.”

50. “Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.”

51. “Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God.”

52. “You don’t give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.”

53. “But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.”

54. “Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings.”

55. “The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God’s peace is faith in the promises of God.”