Quotes about Purpose

Our Lord has a double view of us: the way He intended us to be and the way we corresponded to His grace.

No one can love himself properly unless he knows why he is living. Love is useless when alone.

So when God pulls down the curtain on the drama of the world's redemption, He will not ask what part we played, but only how well we played the role assigned to us.

God does not make anything with the purpose of destroying it. There is no waste in life.

Everyone else who was ever born into the world, came into it to live; our Lord came into it to die.

Do not say we work to go to Heaven because we are mercenary. Does a man love a woman and ask for her hand because he is mercenary? I love poetry; there's no money in it.

I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Whosoever wisely examines the works of God will speedily discover what is next to be done.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

God cannot use you as He wishes until you come into the fullness of His Glory. Do not get alarmed, my friend, when doubts creep in. That is old Satan. Pray, pray, pray.

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.