“But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. “He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.” 7. And I thank God for those who have forced me again and again toward a wartime mind-set.” 6. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks first to what man can do, not what God can do. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace.

Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I don’t think much about people perishing. I start to call earth ‘home.’ Before you know it, I am calling luxuries ‘needs’ and using my money just the way unbelievers do. “I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.” 5. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. “The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.

Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.” 4. “Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.” 3. “It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man.

Below are 15 of the most popular quotations and excerpts from the book. In his best-selling book that has sold more than 1 million copies, Don‘t Waste Your Life, John Piper makes a passionate plea to the next generation to not waste their lives, but to live wholeheartedly for Christ.

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