Quotes about Purpose
Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. PROVERBS 19 : 21
— Francine Rivers
There's order everywhere: the stars, the seasons, the currents of the ocean, the air that moves over the planet, down to the cells that make up everything. I don't believe that's by chance or a series of accidents. It takes intelligence to create all that, intelligence beyond anything human beings can understand. That's part of why I believe in God.
— Francine Rivers
Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
— Francine Rivers
Lord God of heaven and earth, I beg You to give me the confidence of Joshua. Instill in me Your purpose. Do not let me weaken. You are God and there is no other!
— Francine Rivers
And the answers had always come down to trusting God, obeying Him, accepting His will, knowing there was a purpose in what was happening even if they couldn't see it. But sometimes the pain seemed unbearable.
— Francine Rivers
Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as he loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.
— Francine Rivers
Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.
— Francine Rivers
You have whatever strength God has given you, and it will be enough to carry out his good purpose. Trust in him.
— Francine Rivers
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. ROMANS 8:28
— Francine Rivers
Please change me. Make me whatever suits Your purposes here.
— Francine Rivers
Good friend, we all hurt for her. But her suffering will bring about God's purpose, and you will see it.
— Frank Peretti
Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.
— Frank Herbert