All. Thus we can admit that something like “universal salvation” is a fair implication of what we know of Jesus as well as what he taught. To deny universal salvation as implication and possibility, as hope and desire, is to limit and to restrict the power and grace of God.

To assert with absolute certainty universal salvation is to restrict the freedom and grace of God. Still, we may, indeed we ought, to hope and to pray and to work for what we do hope… And that’s why we cannot pronounce some last word on the possibility of the salvation of all. (Who Will Be Saved?, 66,67)

William Willimon