The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.
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John Piper
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A Hunger for God
A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God
Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian
David Brainerd: May I Never Loiter On My Heavenly Journey
Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
Does God Desire All to Be Saved?
Don't Waste Your Life
Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide
Esther
Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton
Finally Alive: What Happens When We Are Born Again?
Future Grace
God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
Jesus: The Only Way to God: Must You Hear the Gospel to Be Saved?
John Calvin: And His Passion for the Majesty of God
Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ
Spectacular Sins: And Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
Tested by Fire: The Fruit of Suffering in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper and David Brainerd.
The Passion of Jesus Christ
The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence
When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God--And Joy
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Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.
Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing but God himself is finally an end in itself. Thinking is not the goal of life. Thinking can be the ground for boasting. Thinking, without prayer, without the Holy Spirit, without obedience, without love, will puff up and destroy (1 Cor. 8:1).But thinking under the mighty hand of God, thinking soaked in prayer, thinking carried by the Holy Spirit, thinking tethered to the Bible, thinking in pursuit of more reasons to praise and proclaim the glories of God, thinking in the service of love--such thinking is indispensable in a life of fullest praise to God.
I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.
Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.