Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.
– John Piper
Related Quotes:
- God puts desires into your heart. His desires will actually become your desires, and your desires will be His. – Elizabeth George
- Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we’ve got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever. – Rick Riordan
- While God desires salvation for everyone, God owes salvation to no one. – Evan Minton
- Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don’t sample the goodies unless you’re willing to risk addiction and withdrawal. – Ann Landers
- The far we can see, we are! It is time we lifted our eyes beyond the horizon of our present boundaries and see goodies ahead of us. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil. – John Piper
- What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The inner intent one has of -˜may everyone attain salvation’, will bring salvation to himself first. – Dada Bhagwan
- As much as salvation is a free gift, the truth is that keeping salvation comes with a price; you must live by God’s law through Jesus Christ. – Felix Wantang
- The work you have to do to accomplish your needs and desires is going to be a harder road than working on the needs and desires for someone else. – Kim Ha Campbell
- When is one considered to be in the awareness of -˜one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens). – Dada Bhagwan
- The one who is worthy of worship by people has no desires. The one who is unworthy of worship has desires. – Dada Bhagwan
- Na, it’s not about the human desires; it’s about the desires being used to get rid of loneliness, insecurity and lack of love we often feel. – Saurabh Sharma
- The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism. – AE Samaan
- Hopes and desires are the fundamental source if creation. – Debasish Mridha
- Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction. – Richie Norton
- Your imaginations are not beyond creation, only God’s imaginations exceeds all creation. – Ujay Neme
- Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation. – Pearl S Buck
- Why are you sitting there watching/reading someone else’s creation when you can be watching/reading your own creation instead Hustle! – BA Gabrielle
- When the Creator touches the Creation, the Creation becomes creative. – Dustin Hedrick
- If the creation is separated from the creator, the creation will die – Sunday Adelaja
- Creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation is the covenant, the love story of God and man. – Pope Benedict XVI
- The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God. – John Piper
- When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains. – John Piper
- Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful. – John Piper
- I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person’s theology was the effect it has on one’s prayers. – John Piper
- The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for. – John Piper
- God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn’t. Copper will do. – John Piper
- I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn. – John Piper
- Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant. – John Piper
- Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment. – John Piper
- I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God. – John Piper
- Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight. – John Piper
- He came to destroy sin because it is fatal. – John Piper
- We ascribe to God. We don’t add to Him. – John Piper
- God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him – John Piper
- It is better to lose your life than to waste it. – John Piper
- Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him? – John Piper
- If we are cut loose from the anchor of God’s Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends. – John Piper
- God without Christ is no God. – John Piper