Quotes about Purpose

To see God solely as love is to overlook the beauty and the purpose of the cross.

God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).

We can put this down as a bedrock truth: God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

That is, all that God does or allows in all of His creation will ultimately serve His glory. As John Piper says in his book Desiring God, "The chief end of God is to glorify God and enjoy himself forever."

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe that just as certainly as God will allow nothing to subvert His glory, so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

It means we believe that God causes all events in our lives, whether good or bad as we judge them, to work together to conform us more and more into the likeness of Christ. It means we give thanks in all circumstances - not for the circumstance considered in itself, but for God's promise to use these circumstances to conform us more to Christ.

Did He create you with an incurable speech impediment?

He did so because that particular infirmity uniquely fits you for the life He has planned for you.

Nothing of Eternal Value is ever accomplished apart from prayer.

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

For what are we born if not to aid one another?

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.