Quotes about Purpose
Then I asked, ‘What should I do, Lord?’ ‘Get up and go into Damascus,’ He told me. ‘There you will be told all that you have been appointed to do.’
— Acts 22:10
Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
— Acts 22:21
In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
— Acts 24:16
And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
— Romans 1:6
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.
— Romans 1:13
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
— Romans 8:29
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
— Romans 9:17
Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
— Romans 9:21
Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function,
— Romans 12:4
If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
— Romans 14:8
Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.
— 1 Corinthians 1:26
He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.
— 1 Corinthians 3:8