John Piper
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES LISA KLEYPAS JOSEPH PRINCE JOHN PIPER This is, indeed, an insightful observation. The Archbishop [Joseph L. Berardin] insists that the nat... PAUL KING JEWETT God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him ... IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA CRAIG GROESCHEL JOYCE MEYER Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radica... ROWAN WILLIAMS GREG GORDON A major theme for Bonhoeffer was that every Christian must be "fully human" by bringing God into his... ERIC METAXAS DESMOND TUTU JOHN OWEN But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, / Even when we were dead in... BIBLE too many of us spend our time trying to chase happiness through wealth and status. however few of us... DAROLL SAKAMOTO JOHN DONNE DIETRICH BONHOEFFER HARUKI MURAKAMI Here is the thing about God. He is so big and so perfect that we can't really understand Him. We can... LAUREN F. WINNER The validity of Solomon's message has not changed in the three thousand years since he penned it. It... JAMES C. DOBSON DEYTH BANGER JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER SAINT TERESA OF AVILA The Covenant of Grace is that eternal and intimate bond of friendship that God has established with ... JOSEPH C. MORECRAFT III SAINT TERESA OF AVILA MARTIN LUTHER At that moment when John Lennon settled his voice on the back of a dove and released it to the world... JANET TURPIN MYERS DIETRICH BONHOEFFER FRANCIS CHAN God created us in his image throw his imagination ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA Victory comes through self -motivation, perseverance and most of all, a personal relationship with G... SAM COLLINS JR. CRAIG GROESCHEL ELISABETH ELLIOT Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see thingsE.J. PATTEN There is no more confused message that you and I could give to a lost and dying world than to live i... JOE FOCHT Fetishizing is the norm for males, not for females. ROBERT STOLLER Though Charles II both craved and enjoyed female companionship till the end of his life, there is no... ANTONIA FRASER GEORGE ELIOT JOHN OWEN JAMES E. FAUST Feast of Philip & James, Apostles What was God to do in the face of the dehumanizing of mankind -... ST. ATHANASIUS Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother w... A. J. GOSSIP SUNDAY ADELAJA God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, t... TYLER EDWARDS The power and attraction Jesus Christ exercises over men never comes from him alone, but from him as... H. RICHARD NIEBUHR BARBARA MANDRELL JOHN CALVIN Imagination is thee ability to creat witch god gave us in witch god himself created man in his image... ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA When you are down to nothing, God and the universe are always up to something!!! Be strong in your f... ANGIE KARAN JOHN WINTHROP FRANCIS CHAN JOYCE MEYER Our message is of truth, love and faith in a peaceful, respectful manner. We are created by God in G... JENNIFER HALL PLATO SAMUEL M. SHOEMAKER And now, my beloved brethren, and also aJew, and all ye ends of the earth, hearken unto these words ... BOOK OF MORMON BILLY GRAHAM ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ROBERT SARAH CRAIG GROESCHEL SUNDAY ADELAJA CHARLES STANLEY For all his secrecy and fear of being seen, he was touched that we had observed him so closely, and ... TIM KREIDER Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord There is a covenant, ... and God is faithf... LESSLIE NEWBIGIN HENRI NOUWEN Listening to Eddy describe his relationship with our mom seemed to indicate that what I feared would... JANET LOUISE STEPHENSON NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS DIETRICH BONHOEFFER SOCRATES JEFFREY R. HOLLAND JERRY BRIDGES CHARLES R. SWINDOLL CRAIG GROESCHEL KARL BARTH John Bunyan understood the Gospel when he wrote that tract, "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved." He knew th... ADOLPH SAPHIR HENRI J.M. NOUWEN C.S. LEWIS VOLTAIRE WILLIAM TEMPLE God wishes all of us to be saved through Jesus the Son and to receive Him with our pure heart and ou... ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (LETTER TO THE FAITHFULL II The truth of this tragedy is that we have pockets of poverty in the most powerful and affluent natio... DON KING In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to... WALTER LANG Everything has it's own time and place,
Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow. SHELLI THOMPSON ROBERT SARAH [The Bible is] absolutely clear that God created human beings as male and female. DON HORROCKS DIETRICH BONHOEFFER BILLY GRAHAM PIERS ANTHONY BRYANT MCGILL PAUL MCCARTNEY JAMES E. FAUST It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA A.W. TOZER Our cross is the point of our unlikeness to the image of Christ, where we must die to self in order ... M. ROBERT MULHOLLAND JR. SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves... ANDREW PETERSON JOSH MCDOWELL POPE BENEDICT XVI JAMES CLERK MAXWELL HENRI J.M. NOUWEN
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It seemed as if I were part of the music. DON PIPER In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I woul... BILLIE PIPER I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way. PIPER PERABO There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simpl... PIPER PAYNE Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had ... PIPER LAURIE I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere. PIPER PERABO There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about bein... PIPER PERABO Rose has had adventures and she's a lot more confident as a companion. She's on a par with the Docto... BILLIE PIPER You want it to happen, but at the same time you don't want it to happen. It's one of those weird thi... BILLIE PIPER There are lots of places for Rose to go. I have had a ball. I might still be here in 40 years. BILLIE PIPER Everyone had an amazing night. Thank you so much to all the generous people who were there raising s... BILLIE PIPER the worst thing I have ever listened to. BILLIE PIPER It may sound ridiculous being just 23 but I've a few good stories I'd like to share. I'm hoping the ... BILLIE PIPER There's some great stuff on telly at the moment. BILLIE PIPER I think I just had a message from my mum, BILLIE PIPER At first, Rose isn't that keen on the idea - she wants the Doctor all to herself. But Mickey, this y... BILLIE PIPER I'll do what I always do on transmission dates, which is go to the pub and get lashed. BILLIE PIPER I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the othe... PIPER PERABO I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'... PIPER LAURIE To me that was interesting. A lot of romantic comedies, it's so obvious she shouldn't be with X and ... PIPER PERABO What is wrong? This train is supposed to stop here! PIPER PERABO You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep somethin... PIPER PERABO And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart. PIPER LAURIE One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more. PIPER LAURIE Instead of changing my name, I would change Piper Laurie. That was the beginning. PIPER LAURIE But then I became so disillusioned.... I had very little life experience and certainly no technique ... PIPER LAURIE There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever reall... BILLIE PIPER It?s really important the way we play that we rotate on defense. If you leave on a double, the other... BERYL PIPER I told them we really needed to control the tempo of the game because they would probably try to slo... BERYL PIPER She's been phenomenal night after night. I'm really pleased with the progress she's made. BERYL PIPER They were playing a zone and in the second half we did a better job attacking it, getting them on th... BERYL PIPER Their guards are really, really fast. Because they?re in your face on defense and they?re so fast th... BERYL PIPER We only missed two free throws all night. That?s a difference in the game. ..And just the hustle pla... BERYL PIPER We have so many kids who can score and so many kids that can defend. We just did a nice job ..It?s a... BERYL PIPER Beating Manchester and (Thursday) the (local rankings had) us second, now you gotta prove to people ... BERYL PIPER It's a little scary. As quick as you get a lead, you can give it away but it's a chance you have to ... BERYL PIPER We're small and quick and don't have a lot of size. Because of that, we changed the philosophy to pr... BERYL PIPER I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm n... PIPER LAURIE Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids... PIPER PERABO I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it... PIPER PERABO I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff. PIPER LAURIE Violet: You always said I could grow up to be anything. PIPER PERABO The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours. PIPER PAYNE Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself. BILLIE PIPER Their faces radiated a serenity I had never seen on Earth. All were full of life and expressed radia... DON PIPER I'm NOT lost, they just moved my street. PIPER PERABO The Complete Idiot's Guide To Your-Movie's-Coming-Out. PIPER PERABO Sometimes I can feel my darkness, like a fragment of nerves inside of me somewhere, sparking my hate... PIPER PAYNE There's no formula. It just happens or it doesn't. And, fortunately enough for us, it happened. BILLIE PIPER As far back as I can remember, I've had only one real ambition: to be an actress. PIPER LAURIE It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance. PIPER PERABO The choreography was specific to be moves any girl could pull off just jumping up on the bar. PIPER PERABO Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart. PIPER PAYNE Her silence should be feared more than her words. PIPER PAYNE She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she fi... PIPER PERABO I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway. PIPER PERABO Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names. PIPER LAURIE This building is a non-smoking facility. I think that has made a difference. DON PIPER I came in one morning and it was here. We sure would like to thank the donor, if we can find out who... DON PIPER There were eight offices in here and we had to remove all of them. A kitchen was also installed in t... DON PIPER I am very honored and humbled to be doing a book signing right here in my own hometown, ... Out of a... DON PIPER It really is incredible; it seems to really be catching on, DON PIPER We are going to start fining people for some of these things. DICK PIPER
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