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If the pump of love runs dry, it is because the pipe of prayer isn't deep enough. 
John Piper
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Christians care about all suffering, especially eternal suffering. Else they have a defective heart or a flameless hell.(Lasaunne conference)
Grace is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over the joy in sin.
Not grace to bar what is not bliss,
Nor flight from all distress, but this:
The grace that orders our trouble and pain,
And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/sustained-by-sovereign-grace-forever
Prayer is always essential, but thought is essential, too, because prayer can be just an escape mechanism, almost at times a cry in the dark by people who are desperate and defeated. Prayer must be intelligent, and it is only to those who realize that their bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost that the answer will be given and the power will come.Spiritual Depression (173)
Prayer is the answer to the disease of self-confidence.
I believe that prayer is the measure of the man, spiritually, in a way that nothing else is.
The pain of our shattered plans is for the purpose of scattered grace. Suffering and the Sovereignty of God(106)
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
One fervent prayer in secret will speak more for our sincerity than many in public.
Grace doesn't mean that obedience is unnecessary, it means that it is finally possible.
Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak. Churches that are not centred on the exaltation of the majesty and beauty of God will scarcely kindle a fervent desire to declare his glory among the nations (Ps 96:3)Let the Nations Be Glad (36)
The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and what became of him after his resurrection, shows the greatness of God's power toward us now in this life.
Your belief is a miracle! You didn't choose it. Of course if you have a theology that says 'I did it' then you have no testimony to the power of God in your life!June 8 2011 Sermon (Minute 31)
Guilt and pain are gifts of God to warn us that the pleasures of sin are suicidal. Though they may feel good in the moment. SermonNov122000
There is a world of difference between praying and laboring for a renewed mind that discerns how to apply God's Word, on the one hand, and the habit of asking God to give you new revelation of what to do, on the other hand. Divination does not require transformation. God's aim is a new mind, a new way of thinking and judging, not just new information. Sermon Notes (August 22, 2004)
We don't take the words seriously when we use God as a throwaway word, or Jesus Christ as a word for when I just hit my finger or something terrible just happened, or damn as a swear word, or hell as a throwaway swear word. The problem with all those words is that they take things that are unbelievably important and serious, and they turn them into moments of smallness.
If you could be brought once to love secret prayer, and to converse feelingly with God in his word, your heaven will begin on earth; you will enjoy more pleasure than in all manner of riches.
The death of God's Son is a greater proof to God's abhorrence of sin than if all humanity had been damned for it forever.
The devil wants you to be as happy and prosperous as you can possibly be provided you don't make any difference for Jesus.
At the heart of all sin is a lie. The lie says to all of us in our sin, "The act you are now doing, the desire or attitude you are now feeling is not very bad because there are much worse things, not very bad because everyone else experiences the same things, not very bad because you can't help it, not very bad because there is no God, or, if that won't work, God knows you are but frail and weak and he will tolerate and pity your sin." There are a thousand distortions of the truth which sin brings with it into the human heart, so that Jeremiah cries out, "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?" (17:9).
Any trust, except in God, brings about sin. Future Grace (325)
When my thirst for joy and meaning and passion are satisfied by the presence and promises of Christ, the power of sin is broken. Future Grace (335)
Brothers, for the sake of the truth, and for the good of your people, and for the glory of God in the world, don't confuse timid uncertainty with truthful humility. Brothers, We are Not Professionals (166)
God ordains our prayers as means of receiving what he plans to give, all to enrich our relationship to him. As the perfect Father of his children, he reserves the right to answer the requests we should have made rather than those we actually made when we have asked for the wrong thing; but he will take action one way or another in every situation of need that we bring before him. Systematic Theology A Lecture
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. N/A
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