John Piper Quote of the Day

...there is a mean, violent streak in the true Christian life! But violence against whom, or what? Not other people! It’s a violence against all the impulses in us that would be violent to other people. It’s a violence against all the impulses in our own selves that would make peace with our own sin and settle in with a peacetime mentality. It’s a violence against all lust in ourselves and all enslaving desires for food or caffeine or sugar or chocolate or alcohol or pornography or money or the praise of men and the approval of others or power or fame. It’s a violence against the impulses in our own soul toward racism and sluggish indifference to injustice and poverty and abortion.

John Piper, When I Don't Desire God, p. 102