Quotes about Purpose
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
— Jeremiah 1:5
The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.
— Jeremiah 15:11
The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.
— Jeremiah 23:20
The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this.
— Jeremiah 30:24
But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”
— Jeremiah 45:5
He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
— Lamentations 3:12
and their wings were touching one another. They did not turn as they moved; each one went straight ahead.
— Ezekiel 1:9
Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they moved.
— Ezekiel 1:12
So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
— Amos 7:6
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
— Jonah 4:8
“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”
— Zechariah 2:2
You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
— Malachi 3:14