The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
John PiperGod created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
John PiperThe thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significanceโa life defined by the question, โWhat is permissible?โโfelt almost disgusting to me. I didnโt want a minimal life. I didnโt want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.
John PiperAll of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and his Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man.... When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.
John Piper