Barnabas Piper

"The expectations we put on ourselves are often born out of what we think is best, not what God has said is best."

- Barnabas Piper

"When we follow our feelings we will be perpetually abandoning things God wants us to commit to because we hope for and expect the wrong things in the wrong timing from the wrong objects."

- Barnabas Piper

"Having eternity in our hearts and looking ahead to the happiness of heaven does not remove the meaning or joy from this life."

- Barnabas Piper

"God cares about work, craft, and creativity because it is good and in it we should find happiness."

- Barnabas Piper

"We know we can turn good things into objects of worship, so we are skeptical of enjoying the good things. But this is the wrong response. It’s true that God is not honored by us idolizing his gifts—but nor is he honored by our ignoring them."

- Barnabas Piper

"God created innumerable good gifts and blessings for us, but we fail to enjoy them as we ought because we have placed far too much or far too little value on them."

- Barnabas Piper

"Pursuing holiness is the pursuit of happiness, in this life and the next. Nobody should be happier than a follower of Jesus."

- Barnabas Piper