Piper Quotes

#1. I opened my mouth, mad enough to spit, and said loudly, "I don't eat iceberg lettuce!" Really? I asked myself. That's what you're going to throw down with? "I don't care what you eat, just don't be pickin' in there!

Piper Kerman

#2. 24 - Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Riley Weber

#3. You know what English is? The result of the efforts of Norman men-at-arms to make dates with Saxon barmaids.

H. Beam Piper

#4. When everything in life is stripped away except God, and we trust him more because of it, this is gain, and he is glorified.

John Piper

#5. One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.

John Piper

#6. What was striking about Ms. Wilson, and was also true of the other outsiders who volunteered their time that day, was that she spoke to us prisoners with great respect, as if our lives ahead had hope and meaning and possibility. After all these months at Danbury, this was a shocking novelty.

Piper Kerman

#7. Hey!" Jason yelled, flying circles around her. "I have a question about my deductibles!" "What?" the statue cried. "Hygeia!" Piper shouted. "I need an invoice submitted to Medicare!" "No, please!

Rick Riordan

#8. This is why it is often called sovereign grace: it raises the dead. The dead do not raise themselves. God does by his grace. And it is this "glorious grace" that will be praised for all eternity.

John Piper

#9. Just as political correctness finds its most avid supporters on today's university campuses, the intellectuals of earlier times generally went along with the religious establishment. He who pays the piper calls the tune.

David P. Clark

#10. At odd moments she may fret over a blank in her memory, but soon a Pied Piper thought will come dancing along and her untrained mind will follow ...

David Mitchell

#11. From eternity to eternity, the beauty of God is pervasive and practical. Ask him to open the eyes of your heart (Ephesians 1:18). Give your life to this quest - seeing and savoring more and more of the happifying beauty of God.

John Piper

#12. I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.

Billie Piper

#13. A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.

William T. Piper

#14. The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don't create it. You don't define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it - or bow to it.

John Piper

#15. The sun of God's glory was made to shine at the center of the solar system of our soul. And when it does, all the planets of our life are held in their proper orbit.

John Piper

#16. Now I was a for-real, hardened con. I felt infinitely better. Piper Kerman, Orange is the New Black, page 54

Piper Kerman

#17. I owe my life and hope to the gospel.

John Piper

#18. I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

John Piper

#19. It is only a matter of time till the reality of the rest of the world comes home. And all the while we are called by Christ to go to them, love them, sacrifice for them, bring the gospel to them. The Great Commission is not child's play. It is costly. Very costly.

John Piper

#20. All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

John Piper

#21. Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?

Rick Riordan

#22. Therefore, Christ crucified is the foundation of all honest and everlast- ing joy. No self-deception is necessary to enjoy it. Indeed all deception must cease in order to enjoy it to the full.

John Piper

#23. I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.

Billie Piper

#24. I try to stay on top of my game physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Robert Piper

#25. 'Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.

Max Landis

#26. I glimpsed the contour of a wide river, its surface glittering white. Dead trees haunted its edges, their limbs stretching skywards, as if begging for forgiveness

Christine Piper

#27. Your mind was made to know and love God.

John Piper

#28. Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?

Roddy Piper

#29. Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God?

John Piper

#30. Theology is a means to enjoying and worshiping God, or it is useless.

John Piper

#31. coronation. "Exactly that. The Scrolls of the Ancient Kings tell of the Throne being crafted for the One Protector of Albion. Many kings and queens have sat upon it, I assure you, and there is no record of that "singing" business of last

Daisy Piper

#32. He's as strong as an ox ... and ALMOST as smart!

Roddy Piper

#33. Honoring Christ, magnifying Christ, making much of Christ. That was the meaning of Paul's life. It should be the meaning of ours. And Paul prays it will be the meaning of his death as well. We live and we die to make much of Christ.

John Piper

#34. God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.

John Piper

#35. Well, God does not mean for us to be passive. He means for us to fight the fight of faith - the fight for joy. And the central strategy is to preach the gospel to yourself. This is war. Satan is preaching for sure. If we remain passive, we surrender the field to him.

John Piper

#36. Fighting is not internal, but it can be very spiritual. Everything acting is internal. One of my problems in making the transition is pulling back, but I'm working on it.

Roddy Piper

#37. O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.

John Piper

#38. I didn't want to be here.
Seriously.
I mean, if I made it through the night without catching an STD from standing in this godforsaken shithole, it would be a miracle.

Lee Piper

#39. Piper!" Frank yelled. "Counter those empousai! We need some chaos."
"Thought you'd never ask." She started catcalling at the female demons: "Your makeup is smeared! Your friend called you ugly! That one is making a face behind your back!

Rick Riordan

#40. In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

John Piper

#41. Jesus's solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God.

John Piper

#42. There is no point in winning an argument if you know or suspect you are wrong.

John Piper

#43. Like the Pied Piper, the street entertainer carries his own mystique which cannot easily be transferred to the stage. He seems to have escaped reality, to perform in a time and space where he doesn't necessarily belong.

Edward Claflin

#44. She thought about her cousins in Oklahoma, which was odd, since she'd never spent much time with them. She didn't even know them very well. Now she was sorry about that.

Rick Riordan

#45. God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.

John Piper

#46. We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. And where it can't, it weeps.

John Piper

#47. Do you know you couldn't get a date with a $20 bill taped to your forehead?

Roddy Piper

#48. Don't be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

John Piper

#49. When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.

John Piper

#50. In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.

Billie Piper

#51. The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a stake.
What she got instead was almost as terrifying: a sing-along.

Rick Riordan

#52. It was good of you to look for Quentin." "Good!" she exclaimed. "Good! O Anthony!" "Well, so it was," he answered. "Or good in you. How accurate one has to be with one's prepositions! Perhaps it was a preposition wrong that set the whole world awry." CHARLES WILLIAMS The Place of the Lion

John Piper

#53. No One Is a Relativist at the Bank

John Piper

#54. I can feel you
staring at me," he said in the softest wake-up voice I'd ever heard. "I only
hope you're a girl and not one of the drunken guys.

Piper Shelly

#55. The best things in life are those that you'll never speak of.

Steffan Piper

#56. 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.

John Piper

#57. I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

John Piper

#58. Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.

John Piper

#59. It felt like I had a thousand packs of Strawberry Pop Rocks simultaneously detonating in my chest, and I dilated at least eight centimeters!

Piper Faust

#60. Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

Nathan Myhrvold

#61. If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.

John Piper

#62. Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It's mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It's about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

John Piper

#63. Then the Yo-Yo was coming around again, and Vann Larch was saying, "Gehenna with this fooling around! I'll fix the expurgated unprintability!

H. Beam Piper

#64. Labor, therefore, to fill your hearts with the cross of Christ . . . that there may be no room for sin.

John Piper

#65. I hadn't known my dad could get so competitive over an auction. It was
probably a good thing he hadn't yet discovered eBay.

Piper Banks

#66. "How are you doing?" - - - better than I deserve ...

John Piper

#67. In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.

John Piper

#68. In my travels I had encountered all kinds of people whose dignity seemed to have a price
widely variable
and I thought that next time I had better set my price higher than anyone would pay.

Piper Kerman

#69. Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt. Maybe there was a part of me that was worthy of their love.

Piper Kerman

#70. The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

John Piper

#71. Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?

John Piper

#72. Yeah, I fancy women big time ... I check them out more than I check men out. Maybe I would want to sleep with a woman ... Not Beyonce, although I like the look of her, I don't think she's that dirty.

Billie Piper

#73. The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering
a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.

John Piper

#74. Everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. Concealed sin keeps us from seeing the light of Christ.

John Piper

#75. Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the dangerous but also the inconvenient - people who are mentally ill, people who are addicts, people who are poor and uneducated and unskilled.

Piper Kerman

#76. Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

John Piper

#77. I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don't have significant relationships with most of my neighbors.

John Piper

#78. The one God has chosen unconditionally he keeps invincibly. Being and staying a believer is decisively of sovereign grace.

John Piper

#79. Peter Piper
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
why couldn't he use his kick-ass alliterative skillz
to write Spoken Word poetry?

Beryl Dov

#80. When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.'

John Piper

#81. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

John Piper

#82. I think it must be hard being David. I get a certain level of attention but - I've seen it in action - he can't move for attention.

Billie Piper

#83. It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

Piper Perabo

#84. Sorry, but I'd rather sit home eating Vienna sausage straight from the can watching Andy Griffith reruns than be forced to dine with that Oompa-Loompa!

Piper Faust

#85. The mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.

John Piper

#86. This is the night of revelation. This is the night the dolls wake. This is the night of the dreamer in the attic. This is the night of the piper in the woods.

Steven Millhauser

#87. Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.

Dick York

#88. No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

John Piper

#89. God uses means to awaken joy in himself,

John Piper

#90. If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

John Piper

#91. The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

John Piper

#92. The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

John Piper

#93. I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

Robert Piper

#94. The ruggers followed me all the way to the cafeteria. I felt like the Pied Piper, except that the rats probably weren't offering to share protein-rich snacks with him.

Justine Larbalestier

#95. I imagined Martha Stewart trying to take over Pops kitchen. That would be better than Godzilla vs. Mothra

Piper Kerman

#96. Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

John Piper

#97. Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

John Piper

#98. So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.

Piper Perabo

#99. Shut up, me" Leo said out loud.
"What?" Piper asked.
"Nothing," he said. "Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool.

Rick Riordan

#100. God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

John Piper