Quotes about Purpose
The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.
— Emil Brunner
Faith only operates when linked with HIS purposes, and the first of them is to 'bless all families on earth'.
— Reinhard Bonnke
The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we never had any trouble, we wouldn't need any faith.
— Joyce Meyer
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
— Thomas Merton
Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to have come alive.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.
— Erwin McManus
Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.
— George W. Bush
When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.
— Joel Osteen
There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.
— Charles Spurgeon
The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10, 000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing.
— Matt Chandler
Your success is not determined by what you have, but by what you do with what you have.
— Myles Munroe
Eventaully you can see that your pain was part of a much larger picture that God was carefully painting.
— James MacDonald