Quotes about Purpose
There comes a point in your life when the Lord opens your eyes to understand what the Christian life was meant to be. It isn't just going to heaven when you die; it's dying to self on earth and allowing Him to live through you.
— Henry Blackaby
Whenever God reveals His nature in a new way, it is always for a purpose. He created you for a love relationship with Him. When He encounters you, He is allowing you to know Him by experience. Encounters with God are always an expression of God's love for you. Jesus said: "The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him" (John 14:21).
— Henry Blackaby
God is not as interested in our origins as He is in our obedience. GOD
— Henry Blackaby
Some of the most miserable people we have known were those who received God's call to full-time Christian service but spent a lifetime rejecting it.
— Henry Blackaby
Lord cannot always spare you and your family and complete His redemptive work in those around you.
— Henry Blackaby
The fishermen could not remain in their fishing boats and become apostles of Jesus Christ.
— Henry Blackaby
Your job is not merely a place to earn a paycheck. It is an arena in which God wants to use you to influence others for the kingdom.
— Henry Blackaby
Moses came to understand that his involvement in God's work was in the context of hundreds of years of divine activity. When Moses came face to face with the same God who had guided his forefathers, he was deeply humbled. Do you sense that your life is a part of God's eternal purposes?
— Henry Blackaby
Your relationship to God is the single most important aspect of your life. If that is not in order, nothing else will be.
— Henry Blackaby
Oswald Sanders asked, Should it not be the office that seeks the man, rather than the man the office?2
— Henry Blackaby
There is a great difference between "living the Christian life" and allowing Christ to live His life through you.
— Henry Blackaby
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
— Herman Melville