Highlights from Don't Waste Your Life

finished reading Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper the other day. lots of good truths in that book. the following are all directly quoted from the book.

• You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that of life is Jesus Christ.
• Newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern.
• If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.
• The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.
• All heroes are shadows of Christ.
• The sunbeams of blessing in our lives are bright in and of themselves. They also give light to the ground where we walk. But there is a higher purpose for these blessings. God means for us to do more than stand outside them and admire them for what they are. Even more, he means for us to walk into them and see the sun from which they come. If the beams are beautiful, the sun is even more beautiful. God's aim is not that we merely admire his gifts, but even more, his glory.
• Be pleased which way soever things shall go, for that the scales are still in God's hand.
• Love is not Christ's making much of us or making life easy. Love is doing what he must do, at great cost to himself (and often to us), to enable us to enjoy making much of him forever.