The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God (Revised Edition)

“The Pleasures of God is perhaps the most important book that John Piper has written. It is certainly the freshest and most penetrating. Many preachers and writers are calling Christians today to be more God-centered. The irony is that even the call to be God-centered focuses attention on us, on what we must do. Certainly the Bible spends no small part of its pages telling us what we must do, but it does so out of profound God-centeredness. And here is a book that does not tell us what we must do to be God-centered; it simply is God-centered. Intoxicating.”

“Run, don’t walk, to buy this remarkable work.”

“In our fallen world, staring at the sun blinds us. But, by God’s grace, contemplating God gives us spiritual sight. Of all of John Piper’s books, this is the most radical. Get this vision of God, and begin to see.”

“In Desiring God, John Piper introduced us to the idea that the pursuit of God’s glory and the pursuit of our joy are not at odds, for the pursuit of God’s glory is our joy. In The Pleasures of God, Piper helps us to see that God’s glory is revealed in great part in what makes him happy. The Pleasures of God is an invitation to meditate on what makes God happy. If what makes God happy reveals His glory, and if we become like him as we behold his glory (2 Corinthians 3:18), then meditating on the pleasures of God will be a means for increased joy in God and gradual conformity into his likeness. If that is your desire, then take up this new edition and read it over and over again.”

“I encourage you to read The Pleasures of God twice—once to see the portrait as a whole and a second time to savor the sheer delight of loving a God so magnificent, so excellent, so holy.”