Quotes About Marriage John Piper

#1. Are you able - theologically, personally, and resource-wise - to be harmoniously, sweetly, and deeply in love with Jesus together in marriage?

John Piper

#2. Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

John Piper

#3. God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

John Piper

#4. Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.

John Piper

#5. More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Kofi Annan

#6. Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

Mia Hamm

#7. There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.

John Piper

#8. I've always loved Alice Cooper.

Rob Zombie

#9. The Doctor gave a modest shrug. Well, I must admit that I made heads turn wherever I go. It's a burden that I just have to live with.

Jacqueline Rayner

#10. Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.

Gregg Braden

#11. Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

John Piper

#12. The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.

John Piper

#13. 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

#14. God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ.

John Piper

#15. Why should the immediate opportunity set be the only one considered, when tomorrow's may well be considerably more fertile than today's?

Seth Klarman

#16. The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Marilyn Ferguson

#17. First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable.

Plato

#18. What transsexuality emphatically is not is a 'lifestyle,' any more than being male or female is a lifestyle. Gender is many things, but one thing it is surely not is a hobby. What it is, more than anything else, is a fact.

Jennifer Finney Boylan

#19. Most foundationally, marriage is the doing of God. And ultimately, marriage is the display of God.

John Piper

#20. Dancing is like poetry written by our bodies: our outstretched arms our words of longing.

Lene Fogelberg

#21. The highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display. That is why marriage exists. If you are married, that is why you are married. If you hope to be, that should be your dream.

John Piper

#22. The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse.

John Piper

#23. Change is not something you do. Change is something you allow.

Vironika Tugaleva

#24. Little pig, little pig, let me come in." To which the pig answered: "No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin." The wolf then answered to that: "Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in." So he huffed, and he puffed, and he blew his house in, and ate up the little pig.

Joseph Jacobs