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Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

John Piper

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

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About John Piper

John Piper may refer to:

John Piper (artist) (1903–1992), English painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows
John Piper (broadcaster), BBC radio host
John Piper (military officer) (1773–1851), lieutenant-governor of Norfolk Island
John Piper (theologian) (born 1946), Calvinist Baptist pastor and author