Does God Desire All to Be Saved? Quotes

“The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when we worship on the basis of what we know about him than he gets if we worship on the basis of what we don’t know.”
― John Piper, Does God Desire All to Be Saved?

“If our effort to know God more clearly is not an effort to love him more dearly, it will be fatal.”
― John Piper, Does God Desire All to Be Saved?

“James warns against the pride of presumption in speaking of
the simplest plans in life without a due submission to the overarching
sovereignty of God over the day’s agenda. Man’s plans might be interrupted by God’s decision to take the life he gave.”
― John Piper, Does God Desire All to Be Saved?

“The climb is not for everyone. We all have different gifts, and not everyone is
called to this kind of intellectual climb. I don’t mean that the nonclimbers
will see less glory or worship with less passion. There are glories in the valleys. And there are paths into beauties of God that
are less intellectual. I would not dare to claim that those who do this sort of climbing always see or savor more glory than those with wider eyes for the glory that is right there in the meadow. Nevertheless, some of us are wired to make this climb. There
is not much choice in it. We should no more boast about doing it than one should boast about being a morning person. Almost
every time we open our Bibles, we see challenges. Puzzles. Mysteries. Paradoxes. Mountain paths beckon us, but seem to lead in opposite directions. We move toward these paths like bumblebees toward morning glories.”
― John Piper, Does God Desire All to Be Saved?