Quotes about Purpose
God can and does work in the hearts and minds of rulers and officials of government to accomplish His sovereign purpose.
— Jerry Bridges
our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.
— Jerry Bridges
so God's honor is to take precedence over our feelings. We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don't understand what He is doing or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur. As we seek God's glory, we may be sure that He has purposed our good and that He will not be frustrated in fulfilling that purpose.
— Jerry Bridges
God sovereignly intervened in the hearts—the desires and wills—of the Egyptians to accomplish His purpose for the Israelites.
— Jerry Bridges
But note also the twofold objective of God's providence: His own glory and the good of His people. These two objectives are never antithetical; they are always in harmony with each other. God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good at the expense of His glory. He has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together.
— Jerry Bridges
Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.
— Jerry Bridges
The fact is we do not know what God is doing through a particular set of circumstances or events.
— Jerry Bridges
He has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together.
— Jerry Bridges
God still holds us accountable for the very sins that He uses to accomplish His purpose.
— Jerry Bridges
We are to look beyond our adversity to what God is doing in our lives and rejoice in the certainty that He is at work in us to cause us to grow.
— Jerry Bridges
To see God solely as love is to overlook the beauty and the purpose of the cross.
— Jerry Bridges
God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).
— Jerry Bridges