Quotes about Purpose

He uses the difficult seasons in our relationships to allow us to see what we typically live for besides him.

If our heart's foundation is solid, based on God's truth, design, and purpose for us, we will be able to build healthy, God-honoring relationships even though we are flawed people living in a broken world. By contrast, broken community is always the result of broken foundations.

God will take us where we have not planned to go in order to produce in us what we could not achieve on our own.

What God has begun in you, he will complete. Your destiny has already been decided. The One who decided it will give you all you need to get there.

Everything God does and everything God calls us to only make sense from the perspective of eternity. If there is no end to the story, believers are a bunch of fools who need to be pitied. There is no reason for what we have tried to do. But there is a final chapter! God has opened it up so that we could look in and then look back to our lives with understanding and hope.

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Memory (the deliberate act of remembering) is a form of willed creation. It is not an effort to find out the way it really was--that is research. The point is to dwell on the way it appeared and why it appeared in that particular way.

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

Other than outwitting evil, waging war against the unworthy, there seems to be nothing for the inhabitants of paradise to do.

Unity is not uniformity; unity is oneness of purpose.

biblical unity in marriage ought to represent: the distinct lives of two individuals experiencing God's purpose for each of them in harmony with the other.

Many men have come to view the church for its convenience—help me, bless me, serve me, preach to me, sing to me, pray for me, but don't expect me to be a vehicle to minister to anyone else or join with you to impact the world.