Quotes about Purpose
He tapped me gently in the chest. "And neither are you. So, if your mind is telling you that God slipped up and might have made one giant mistake when it comes to you, you remember the firefly's butt.
— Charles Martin
He said he gave up what he couldn't keep to gain what he couldn't lose.
— Charles Martin
We wrestle and search. But regardless of where we search and how we try to answer the question or what we ingest, inject, or swallow to numb the nagging, only the Father gets to tell us who we are. Period.
— Charles Martin
If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees, then you're fighting the wrong battle.
— Charles Martin
And neither are you. So, if your mind is telling you that God slipped up and might have made one giant mistake when it comes to you, you remember the firefly's butt." The
— Charles Martin
You stir man to take pleasure in praising You, because You have made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in You.
— Charles Martin
God is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.
— Charles Swindoll
God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.
— Charles Swindoll
The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.
— Charles Stanley
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.
— H Richard Niebuhr
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie