John Piper Quotes About Praise
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In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).
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Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.
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Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.
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You can't praise what you don't prize.
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God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.
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We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.
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Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's eyes. Everytime someone forsakes God for the world, gets angry at God when part of the world is taken away from them, they highlight the world as valuable... and everytime someone stays with God, when the world is taken away, and praises God, they highlight the value and glory of God.
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All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints.
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