Quotes about Purpose

God decided to leave you in this fallen world to live, love, and work, because he intended to use the difficulties you face to do something in you that couldn't be done any other way.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,

God is not willing for this broken-down world to stay in its sorry condition. As Creator, he is able to look at it and see promise, the promise of a total restoration of its beauty. And he has asked you to move in with him to be one of his tools of restoration. While it is hard to live in a house that needs to be restored in some ways it is even harder to live there while the restoration takes place.

Our deepest problem is that we seek to find our identity outside the story of redemption.

The ultimate purpose of the Word of God is not theological information but heart and life transformation.

To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.

Your job is be God's tool for the purpose of forming the image of God's Son in your children.

God has chosen to let you live in this fallen world because he plans to employ the difficulties of it to continue and complete his work in you.

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

In grace, he leads you where you didn't plan to go in order to produce in you what you couldn't achieve on your own.

God owns our relationships—we do not—and that he has a higher purpose for them than we do.

It's important to realize that you can search for life in only two places. Either you have found life to the fullest vertically or you are shopping for it horizontally.