Friday, August 22, 2008

A Quote on Difference Making

“You don't have to know a lot of things to make a huge difference for the Lord in the world. But you do have to know a few things that are great, and be willing to live for them and die for them. People who make a difference in the world are not people who have mastered a lot of things. They are people who have been mastered by a very few things that are very, very great. If you want your life to count, you don't have to have a high IQ; you don’t have to have a high EQ; you don't have to be smart, you don’t have to have good looks; you don't have to come from a good family or a good school. You just have to know a few basic, simple, glorious, majestic, obvious, unchanging, eternal things and be gripped by them and be willing to lay down your life for them, which is why anybody in this crowd can make a world-wide difference. Because it isn’t you, it is what you’re gripped with.”

-John Piper, transcribed from the audio of "Boasting Only in the Cross"

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