Quotes about End
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end; Not wedlock-treachery.
— John Milton
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.
— John Owen
Not to aim to show God is not to love, because God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end.
— John Piper
Not to aim to show God is not to love, bc God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end.
— John Piper
When God is so often spoken of as the last as well as the first, the end as well as the beginning, it is implied that as he is the first, efficient58 cause and fountain from whence all things originate; so, he is the last, final cause for which they are made; the final term to which they all tend in their ultimate issue. This
— John Piper
Glorifying God and enjoying Him were one end in their minds, not two.
— John Piper
The End for Which God Created the World
— John Piper
God] had respect to himself, as his last and highest end, in this work; because he is worthy in himself to be so, being infinitely the greatest and best of beings. All things else, with regard to worthiness, importance, and excellence, are perfectly as nothing in comparison of him. All that is ever spoken of in the Scripture as an ultimate end of God's works is included in that one phrase, the glory of God.
— John Piper
The rejoicing of all peoples in God, and the magnifying of God's glory are one end, not two. Why
— John Piper
For it appears, that all that is ever spoken of in the Scripture as an ultimate end of God's works, is included in that one phrase, the glory of God; which
— John Piper
if God be this center, then God aimed at himself. And herein it appears, that as he is the first author of their being and motion, so he is the last end, the final term, to which is their ultimate tendency and aim.
— John Piper
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.
— John Piper